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United Nations membership | |
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Membership | Full member |
Since | 24 October 1945 |
Former name(s) | United States of Brazil (1945–1967) |
UNSC seat | Non-permanent (G4 member) |
Permanent Representative | Ronaldo Costa Filho |
Brazil is a non-permanent member of the United Nations. It has participated in peacekeeping operations with the UN[1] in the Middle East, the former Belgian Congo, Cyprus, Mozambique, Angola, and more recently East Timor and Haiti.[2] Brazil has been regularly elected as a non-permanent member to the Security Council since its first session in 1946 and is now among the most elected UN member states to the UNSC. Brazil was elected to become a member of the 15-country UN Security Council for the two-year term of 2022-23.[3]