1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of fifty-
four Members of the United Nations elected by the General
Assembly.

2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, eighteen mem-
bers of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each
year for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be
eligible for immediate re-election.

3. At the first election after the increase in the membership
of the Economic and Social Council from twenty-seven to fifty-
four members, in addition to the members elected in place of
the nine members whose term of office expires at the end of
that year, twenty-seven additional members shall be elected. Of
these twenty-seven additional members, the term of office of
nine members so elected shall expire at the end of one year,
and of nine other members at the end of two years, in accord-
ance with arrangements made by the General Assembly.

4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall
have one representative.

Functions and Powers
ARTICLE 62

1. The Economic and Social Council may make or initiate
studies and reports with respect to international economic,
'social, cultural, educational, health, and related matters and
may make recommendations with respect to any such matters
to the General Assembly, to the Members of the United
Nations, and to the specialized agencies concerned.

2. It may make recommendations for the purpose of pro

educational advancement, their just treatment, and their
protection against abuses;

b. to develop self-government, to take due account of
the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them
in the progressive development of their free political in-
stitutions, according to the particular circumstances of each
territory and its peoples and their varying stages of ad-
vancement;

c. to further international peace and security;

d. to promote constructive measures of development, to
encourage research, and to co-operate with one another
and, when and where appropriate, with specialized inter-
national bodies with a view to the practical achievement
of the social, economic, and scientific purposes set forth
in this Article; and

e. to transmit regularly to the Secretary-General for in-
formation purposes, subject to such limitation as security
and constitutional considerations may require, statistical
and other information of a technical nature relating to
economic, social, and educational conditions in the terri-
tories for which they are respectively responsible other
than those territories to which Chapters XII and XIII
apply.

The basic objectives of the trusteeship system, in accordance
with the Purposes of the United Nations laid down in Article
1 of the present Charter, shall be:

a. to further international peace and security;

b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educa-
tional advancement of the inhabitants of the trust terri-
tories, and their progressive development towards self-
government or independence as may be appropriate to the
particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples
and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned,
and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship
agreement;

c. to encourage respect for human rights and for funda-
mental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex,
language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the
interdependence of the peoples of the world; and

d. to ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and
commercial matters for all Members of the United Nations
and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the latter
in the administration of justice, without prejudice to the
attainment of the foregoing objectives and subject to the
provisions of Article 80.