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1. The staff shall be appointed by the Secretary-General under regulations established by the General Assembly.

2. Appropriate staffs shall be permanently assigned to the
Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, and, as
required, to other organs of the United Nations. These staffs
shall form a part of the Secretariat.

3. The paramount consideration in the employment of the
staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall
be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency,
competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the im-
portance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis
as possible.

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1. The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each
of its Members such privileges and immunities as are necessary
for the fulfilment of its purposes.

2. Representatives of the Members of the United Nations
and officials of the Organization shall similarly enjoy such
privileges and immunities as are necessary for the independent
exercise of their functions in connexion with the Organization.

3. The General Assembly may make recommendations with
a view to determining the details of the application of para-
graphs 1 and 2 of this Article or may propose conventions to
the Members of the United Nations for this purpose.

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by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations including
all the permanent members of the Security Council.

3. If such a conference has not been held before the tenth
annual session of the General Assembly following the coming
into force of the present Charter, the proposal to call such a
conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the
General Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so de-
cided by a majority vote of the members of the General Assem-
bly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council.

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1. A General Conference of the Members of the United
Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may
be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of
the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any
nine members of the Security Council. Each Member of the
United Nations shall have one vote in the conference.

2. Any alteration of the present Charter recommended by
a two-thirds vote of the conference shall take effect when rati-
fied in accordance with their respective constitutional processes

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2. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Govern-
ment of the United States of America, which shall notify all
the signatory states of each deposit as well as the Secretary-
General of the Organization when he has been appointed.

3. The present Charter shall come into force upon the
deposit of ratifications by 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
America, and by a majority of the other signatory states. A
protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be drawn
up by the Government of the United States of America which
shall communicate copies thereof to all the signatory states.

4. The states signatory to the present Charter which ratify
it after it has come into force will become original Members
of the United Nations on the date of the deposit of their respec-
tive ratifications.

ARTICLE 111

The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French, Russian,
English, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall remain
deposited in the archives of the Government of the United
States of America. Duly certified copies thereof shall be trans-
mitted by that Government to the Governments of the other
signatory states.

IN FAITH WHEREOF the representatives of the Governments
of the United Nations have signed the present Charter.

DONE at the city of San Francisco the twenty-sixth day of
June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.

"UNITING FOR PEACE"; RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

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Recognizing that the first two stated 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 or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justices and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;

"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;" Reaffirming that it remains to the primary duty of all Members of the United Nations, when involved in an international dispute, to seek settlement of such a dispute by peaceful means through the procedures laid down in Chapter VI of the Charter, and recalling the successful achievements of the United Nations in this regard on a number of previous occasions, Finding that international tension exists on a dangerous scale. Recalling its resolution 290 (IV) entitled "Essentials of peace," which states that disregard of the Principles of the Charter of the United Nations is primarily responsible for the continuance of international tension, and desiring to contribute further to the objectives of that resolution.

Reaffirming the importance of the exercise by the Security Council of its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and the duty of the permanent members to seek unanimity and to exercise restraint in the use of the veto,

Reaffirming that the initiative in negotiating the agreements for armed forces provided for in Article 43 of the Charter belongs to the Security Council, and desiring to ensure that, pending the conclusion of such agreements, the United Nations has at its disposal means for maintaining international peace and security,

Conscious that failure of the Security Council to discharge its responsibilities on behalf of all the Member States, particularly those responsibilities referred to in the two preceding paragraphs, does not relieve Member States of their obligations or the United Nations of its responsibility under the Charter to maintain international peace and security.

Recognizing in particular that such failure does not deprive the General Assembly of its rights or relieve it of its responsibilities under the Charter in regard to the maintenance of international peace and security,

Recognizing that discharge by the General Assembly of the responsibilities in these respects calls for possibilities of observation which would ascertain the facts and expose aggressors; the existence of armed forces which could be used collectively, and for the possibility of timely recommendation by the General Assemble to Members of the United Nations for collective action which, to be effective, should be prompt,

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1. Resolves that if the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in any case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, the General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately with a view to making appropriate recommendations to Members for collective measures, including in the case of a breach of the peace or act of aggression the use of armed force when necessary, to maintain or restore international peace and security. If not in session at the time, the General Assembly may meet in emergency special session within twenty-four hours of the request therefor. Such emergency special session shall be called if requested by the Security Council on the vote of any seven members, or by a majority of the Members of the United Nations;

2. Adopts for this purpose the amendments to its rules of procedure set forth in the annex to the present resolution;

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