Military Staff Committee
A committee established under Article 47 of the United Nations Charter. Articles 43–47 of the Charter (within Chapter VII) envisage, through the Military Staff Committee, advance military cooperation for UN collective military security. This body is to advise the Security Council on all questions relating to armed forces placed at the disposal of the latter. It consists of the chiefs of staff of the permanent members of the Security Council, although other members of the United Nations may be invited to sit with it when the efficient discharge of the Committee’s responsibilities so requires.

Due to deadlock, principally among the permanent members of the Security Council, the Committee declared that it could make no further progress on the matter of military cooperation for UN collective security measures. Although the Committee still formally exists it has had no real function to perform since its establishment in October 1945. See also collective security; enforcement action.

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