Declaration of the United Nations

The Declaration of United Nations (English: Declaration by United Nations ) was signed on January 1, 1942 by 26 states of the anti-Hitler coalition during the Arcadia Conference in Washington. It served to formalize and reaffirm the previously adopted Atlantic Charter and was a step on the way to founding the United Nations .

All signatories to the declaration are considered founding members of the United Nations.

Obligations

Specifically, the signatories committed themselves:

1. to make every effort in the fight against the Axis powers ( Germany , Japan , Italy and their allies), and
2. to work together with the other contracting parties to establish a permanent system of international security and to forego separate peace agreements or ceasefire agreements .

The first clause only applied to those enemy states with which the respective signatory state was at war. Thus, among other things, the problem was circumvented that the Soviet Union was obliged to neutrality vis-à-vis Japan by the Japanese-Soviet neutrality pact concluded in 1941 (the Soviet Union terminated this pact on April 5, 1945 and entered the war against Japan shortly before its end ) .

Signatory

The founding 26 states were:

the United States of America the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the Republic of China Australia Belgium Costa Rica the Dominican Republic El Salvador

Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Yugoslavia Canada Cuba Luxembourg

New Zealand Nicaragua the Netherlands Norway Panama Poland South African Union the Czechoslovakia

By March 1945, another 19 countries had joined the declaration:

Mexico June 5, 1942 the Commonwealth of the Philippines June 10, 1942 the Empire of Ethiopia July 28, 1942 the Kingdom of Iraq January 16, 1943 Brazil February 8, 1943 Bolivia April 27, 1943 Iran September 10, 1943

Colombia December 22, 1943 Liberia February 26, 1944 France December 26, 1944 Ecuador February 7, 1945 Peru February 11, 1945 Chile February 12, 1945 Paraguay February 12, 1945

Venezuela February 16, 1945 Uruguay February 23, 1945 the Turkey 24 February 1945 the Kingdom of Egypt February 27, 1945 Saudi Arabia March 1st, 1945

See also

• Article 3 of the Charter of the United Nations

Web links

• avalon.law.yale.edu : text of the statement (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dominion of the British Commonwealth of Nations .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Government in exile. See list of governments in exile during World War II .
3. ^ Provisional Government of the French Republic