![]() At times, elected members have demonstrated that they are willing to take up the pen. While any member of the Council can be a penholder-it is an informal system, with nothing preventing other Council members from “grabbing the pen” and drafting outcomes on any issue-the P3 continue to dominate the penholder list, as is clear from the tables below. It was not until 2006-with France, the UK and the US (known as the P3) leading in the drafting and negotiating of outcomes regarding nuclear threats by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Iran-that the penholder “system” began to emerge as a distinct practice. While leadership within the Council in drafting resolutions has been regular practice since its inception, the penholder system itself is a fairly recent development. The penholder role refers to the member of the Council that leads the negotiation and drafting of resolutions on a particular Council agenda item. The penholder system and the process of appointing chairs of subsidiary bodies are frequent topics of discussion among Council members. ![]() The list of chairs of subsidiary bodies is contained in a note by the Council president, also of 2 January. For the full names of agenda items, please refer to the summary statement by the Secretary-General of matters of which the Security Council is seized issued on 2 January. The tables do not cover all the agenda items of which the Council is currently seized but focus on items with regular outcomes or those for which a subsidiary body has been established. The tables below reflect the Security Council penholders and chairs of subsidiary bodies as of January 2020. Lead Roles within the Council in 2020: Penholders and Chairs of Subsidiary Bodies
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