page_title: Mexico and the United Nations
section_title: Security Council
hierarchical_section_title: Mexico and the United Nations / Security Council
caption_attribution_description: English: Intervención del Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto en la Sesión Plenaria de la Cumbre para la Adopción de la Agenda 2030. Nueva York. 27 de septiembre de 2015.
context_page_description: Mexico is one of the 51 founding members of the United Nations and was admitted into the organization in 1945. Since then, Mexico is a full member of all the UN agencies and participates actively within the organization and has diplomatic relations with most member states. In June 2020, Mexico was elected for its fifth two year Non-Permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council which begins on 1 January 2021.
context_section_description: Mexico has been elected five times to the United Nations Security Council. The Mexican Government is vehemently opposed to adding new members to the Security Council. Mexico and eight other countries created a group called the "Uniting for Consensus" (also known as the Coffee Club), where they are opposed to new permanent members, however they would like to raise the number of more non-permanent members to 20.
  List of terms as an elected member to the Security Council:
  1946
  1980–1981
  2002–2003
  2009–2010
  2021–2022
caption: President Enrique Peña Nieto speaking at the seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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