Chapter I of the Charter of the United Nations
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The Chapter I of the Charter of the United Nations entitled "Objectives and Principles" (purposes and principles) and contains Articles 1 and 2 of the Charter of the United Nations .
In the first article, the United Nations (UNO) defines the goals of peace and international security , the creation and strengthening of friendly international relations and cooperation of an economic, social, cultural and humanitarian nature and the strengthening of human rights .
The second article stipulates the equality of all states and demands the resolution of interstate conflicts by peaceful means. The territorial integrity and political independence of every other state must be respected. The threat or use of force , as well as the support of activities against another country are clearly prohibited .
This prohibition of violence is a clear extension of the " Paris Treaty " ( Briand-Kellogg Pact ), which since 1928 has outlawed every war of aggression under international law.
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The original text is available in English on the UN website and in German on the United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe ( UNRIC ) website.
article 1
The United Nations has set itself the following goals:
- To maintain world peace and security, and to this end, to take effective collective action to prevent and eliminate threats to peace, to suppress acts of aggression and other breaches of the peace, and to pursue international disputes or situations that could lead to a breach of peace through peaceful means to purify or settle the principles of justice and international law;
- to develop friendly relations between nations based on respect for the principle of equality and self-determination of peoples and to take other appropriate measures to consolidate world peace;
- Establish international cooperation in order to solve international problems of an economic, social, cultural and humanitarian nature and to promote and consolidate respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all regardless of race, sex, language or religion;
- to be a center in which the efforts of nations to achieve these common goals are aligned.
Article 2
The organization and its members, in pursuance of the objectives set out in Article 1, act according to the following principles:
- The organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members.
- In order to secure the rights and benefits arising from membership for all of them, all members shall, in good faith, perform the obligations they assume under this Charter.
- All members settle their international disputes through peaceful means in such a way that world peace, international security and justice are not endangered.
- In their international relations, all members refrain from any threat or use of force directed against the territorial integrity or political independence of a state or otherwise incompatible with the aims of the United Nations.
- All members shall render all assistance to the United Nations in any action that the Organization takes in accordance with this Charter; they do not assist a state against which the organization is taking preventive or coercive measures.
- The organization ensures that states that are not members of the United Nations act in accordance with these principles to the extent that this is necessary to maintain international peace and security.
- This charter cannot be used to derive the authority of the United Nations to intervene in matters which by their nature belong to the internal competence of a state, or an obligation of the members to submit such matters to a settlement on the basis of this charter; the application of coercive measures according to Chapter VII is not affected by this principle.
See also
- Crimes of aggression
- World law principle (also universality principle)
- Briand-Kellogg Pact or " Paris Treaty ", an international treaty of 1928 to outlaw war
Web links
- Chapter I. In: UNRIC. Retrieved January 2, 2017 (German original text).
- Charter of the United Nations
