Neither Russia nor China could avoid showing solidarity within the Security Council.

Two permanent council members, Russia and China, agreed to referral only on condition that the council take no action before March.

Supplementary report on steps taken by China to implement Security Council resolution 1540 (2004)

China firmly supports the increase of the representation of African countries on the Council.

Veto power is effectively shifting from the UN Security Council to G 77 plus China.

China stands ready to study the details involved, together with other members of the Council.

According to the Brazil China Business Council, Brazil will have its first trade deficit with China in 2007, despite growth exports of minerals and agricultural products.

On 2 July 2012, China State Council of the People's Republic of China declared that sharks fin soup can no longer be served at official banquets.

Hans Kundnani and Jonas Parello Plesner of the European Council on Foreign Relations view the China Germany relationship as one that will shape the overall China EU relationship.

For example, China has blocked Japan s efforts to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

The US went to war despite strong opposition from France, Germany, Russia, China, and other United Nations Security Council members.

Such contracts were in flagrant violation of the arms embargo instituted under UN Security Council Resolution 1970, which China approved.

I have observed its transformation as a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC).

As Council president, France, which shares America s views about the need to strengthen sanctions on Iran s government, can raise the matter, something that China eschewed during its tenure in January as Council leader.

Permanent members of the Security Council China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America

But, while China has supported the mandatory sanctions set by the United Nations Security Council, it has rejected the West s unilateral measures.

According to research released in March 2011 by the China Development Research Foundation of the Chinese State Council, poverty in the western provinces of China has led to malnutrition and developmental delays among primary school students.

And, in recent years, China has worked behind the scenes to prevent permanent Security Council membership from conveying great power status on India.

The five permanent Security Council members the US, Britain, France, China, and Russia will not be able to take these members for granted.

In Sudan, China supported a UN Security Council resolution establishing an international operation and committed 315 engineers to the UN African Union force.

Letter dated 7 May 1999 from the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council.

Letter dated 24 June 2005 from the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

To Stalin's surprise, the UN Security Council backed the defense of South Korea, though the Soviets were then boycotting meetings in protest that Taiwan and not Communist China held a permanent seat on the Council.

China is convinced that Member States still have the time and opportunity to achieve a broad consensus on the enlargement of the Security Council.

China supports the necessary and rational reform of the Security Council with a view to enhancing its capacity to respond to global threats and challenges.

Ms. Wang Xinxia (China) said that her delegation supported the establishment of UNMIS and believed that Security Council resolution 1590 (2005) should be implemented immediately.

Along with Russia, China has backed Syria in the Security Council, and it was recently revealed that Iran helped Syria to defy international sanctions by providing a ship to transport oil from Syria to a state owned company in China.

In October 1971, the PRC replaced the Republic of China in the United Nations, and took its seat as a permanent member of the Security Council.

Annex to the letter dated 24 June 2005 from the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

China attaches great importance to Security Council resolution 1540 (2004), and was among the first to submit its national report on the implementation of the resolution.

Consideration also needs to be given, therefore, to the establishment of a NATO China Council, along the lines of the NATO Russia Council, and to the creation of arrangements that would facilitate greater cooperation with the SCO as a whole.

It is the gateway to North China, Northeast China, and Northwest China.

Resistance to sanctions from Russia, China, and France has persuaded US officials to allow more time for diplomacy before pushing for punitive action in the Security Council.

But Russia and China vetoed the proposal anyway, and only nine members of the Security Council voted in favor, with Brazil, India, South Africa, and Lebanon abstaining.

All five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council agreed on a resolution condemning North Korea s actions, and China warned North Korea to moderate its behavior.

Mr. Wang Guangya (China) said that the establishment of the Human Rights Council represented an important step in the reform of the United Nations human rights mechanisms.

After a massive gas well explosion killed 243 people in southwest China last December, China's State Council and National People's Congress have announced new rules for industrial safety.

We see this in the higher profile that China has taken in defusing the North Korean nuclear crisis and in drafting the recent Security Council resolution on Darfur.

Tensions between China and its neighbors have escalated in the South China Sea, and between China and Japan in the East China Sea.

In addition, Wen announced that China would support India s inclusion as a permanent member of an expanded United Nations Security Council, and oppose Japan s inclusion, which the US supports.

President Bush is in Asia to attend the Asian Pacific Economic Council in China, but he should pay attention to another Asian summit to which he was not invited.

China does have some common interests in fighting Islamic extremist terrorism, and it did not try to block America's path to the Iraqi war in the UN Security Council.

It has been the consistent view of China that the reform of the Security Council should be realized through a gradual process of democratic discussion aimed at achieving consensus.

Mr. Zhang Yishan (China) (spoke in Chinese) We have taken note of the report submitted to the Security Council by Mr. Mehlis, head of the International Independent Investigation Commission.

I have the honour to enclose the assessment of the work of the Security Council during the presidency of the People's Republic of China in April 2005 (see annex).