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- $Pretitle{001}
- $Title{United Nations
- Chapter 1. Purposes and Principles}
- $Subtitle{}
- $Author{United Nations Publications}
- $Affiliation{United Nations}
- $Subject{nations
- international
- united
- members
- peace
- charter
-
- }
- $Date{1989}
- $Log{}
- Country: United Nations
- Book: Charter of the United Nations
- Author: United Nations Publications
- Affiliation: United Nations
- Date: 1989
-
- Chapter 1. Purposes and Principles
-
- Article 1
-
- The Purposes of the United Nations are:
-
- 1. 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 or other breaches of the
- peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the
- principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of
- international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the
- peace;
-
- 2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the
- principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take
- other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
-
- 3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international
- problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in
- promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental
- freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion;
- and
-
- 4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the
- attainment of these common ends.
-
- Article 2
-
- The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in
- Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles:
-
- 1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality
- of all its Members.
-
- 2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits
- resulting from membership, shall fulfil in good faith the obligations assumed
- by them in accordance with the present Charter.
-
- 3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful
- means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are
- not endangered.
-
- 4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the
- threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political
- independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the
- Purposes of the United Nations.
-
- 5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any
- action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from
- giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking
- preventive or enforcement action.
-
- 6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the
- United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be
- necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.
-
- 7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United
- Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic
- jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters
- to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not
- prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.
-