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The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 523 (VI) of 12 January 1952 and 626 (VII) of 21 December 1952, Bearing in mind its resolution 1314 (XIII) of 12 December 1958, by which it established the Commission on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resour...
United Nations Charter: Preamble
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human...
United Nations Charter, Chapter I: Purposes and Principles
Article 1 The Purposes of the United Nations are: To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression ...
United Nations Charter, Chapter II: Membership
Article 3 The original Members of the United Nations shall be the states which, having participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, or having previously signed the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January ...
United Nations Charter, Chapter III: Organs
Article 7 There are established as principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International Court of Justice and a Secretariat. Such subsidiary organs as may be ...
United Nations Charter, Chapter IV: The General Assembly
COMPOSITION Article 9 The General Assembly shall consist of all the Members of the United Nations. Each Member shall have not more than five representatives in the General Assembly. FUNCTIONS AND POWERS Article 10 The General Assembly may discuss any...
United Nations Charter, Chapter V: The Security Council
COMPOSITION Article 23 The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members of the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of A...
United Nations Charter, Chapter VI: Pacific Settlement of Disputes
Article 33 The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settle...
United Nations Charter, Chapter VII: Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression
United Nations Charter, Chapter VII:Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression Article 39 The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggress...
United Nations Charter, Chapter VIII: Regional Arrangements
Article 52 Nothing in the present Charter precludes the existence of regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with such matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as are appropriate for regional action provided that such ar...
United Nations Charter, Chapter IX: International Economic and Social Cooperation
Article 55 With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the United Nations sha...
United Nations Charter, Chapter X: The Economic and Social Council
COMPOSITION Article 61 The Economic and Social Council shall consist of fifty-four Members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council shall be ele...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XI: Declaration Regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories
United Nations Charter, Chapter XI:Declaration Regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories Article 73 Members of the United Nations which have or assume responsibilities for the administration of territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full meas...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XII: International Trusteeship System
United Nations Charter, Chapter XII:International Trusteeship System Article 75 The United Nations shall establish under its authority an international trusteeship system for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed there...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XIII: The Trusteeship Council
COMPOSITION Article 86 The Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following Members of the United Nations: those Members administering trust territories; such of those Members mentioned by name in Article 23 as are not administering trust territories...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XIV: The International Court of Justice
Article 92 The International Court of Justice shall be the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It shall function in accordance with the annexed Statute, which is based upon the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and forms an i...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XV: The Secretariat
Article 97 The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary-General shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. He shall be the chief administrativ...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XVI: Miscellaneous Provisions
Article 102 Every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Secretariat and published by it. No party to any such...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XVII: Transitional Security Arrangements
United Nations Charter, Chapter XVII:Transitional Security Arrangements Article 106 Pending the coming into force of such special agreements referred to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Security Council enable it to begin the exercise of its respons...
United Nations Charter, Chapter XVIII: Amendments
Article 108 Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for all Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted by a vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutiona...