The members of which body issued a rare joint statement at the beginning of January 2022 affirming that "a nuclear......

Question

What free trade area that came into effect on 1 January 2010 was the largest at the time in terms of population and third largest in terms of volume?

Answer 1

United Nations Security Council
The members were China, France, Russia, the UK and the USA, all the five members of the Council and five major nuclear-armed States. However, just under two months later Russia invaded Ukraine again and soon after put its nuclear forces on high alert. At the beginning of August Russia stated at the United Nations that it could decide to use its nuclear arsenal in response to "direct aggression" by NATO countries over the invasion.