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1. Each member of the General Assembly shall have one vote.
2. Decisions of the General Assembly on important
questions shall be made by a two-thirds majority of the members
present and voting. These questions shall include: recommenda-
tions with respect to the maintenance of international peace and
security, the election of the non-permanent members of the
Security Council, the election of the members of the Economic
and Social Council, the election of members of the Trusteeship
Council in accordance with paragraph 1(c) of Article 86, the
admission of new Members to the United Nations, the suspen-
sion of the rights and privileges of membership, the expulsion
of Members, questions relating to the operation of the trustee-
ship system, and budgetary questions.

3. Decisions on other questions, including the determina-
tion of additional categories of questions to be decided by a
two-thirds majority, shall be made by a majority of the members
present and voting.

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1. The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members
of the United Nations. 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 shall be permanent members of the Security Council.
The General Assembly shall elect ten other Members of the
United Nations to be non-permanent members of the Security
Council, due regard being specially paid, in the first instance
to the contribution of Members of the United Nations to the
maintenance of international peace and security and to the other
purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographi-
cal distribution.

2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of

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1. In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the
United Nations, its Members confer on the Security Council
primary responsibility for the maintenance of international
peace and security, and agree that in carrying out its duties
under this responsibility the Security Council acts on their
behalf.

2. In discharging these duties the Security Council shall act
in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United
Nations. The specific powers granted to the Security Council
for the discharge of these duties are laid down in Chapters VI,
VII, VIII, and XII.

3. The Security Council shall submit annual and, when
necessary, special reports to the General Assembly for its con-
sideration.

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1. The Security Council shall be so organized as to be able
to function continuously. Each member of the Security Council
shall for this purpose be represented at all times at the seat of
the Organization.

2. The Security Council shall hold periodic meetings at
which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented
by a member of the government or by some other specially
designated representative.

3. The Security Council may hold meetings at such places
other than the seat of the Organization as in its judgment will
best facilitate its work.

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ARTICLE 35

1. Any Member of the United Nations may bring any
dispute, or any situation of the nature referred to in Article 34,
to the attention of the Security Council or of the General
Assembly.

2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations
may bring to the attention of the Security Council or of the
General Assembly any dispute to which it is a party if it accepts
in advance, for the purposes of the dispute, the obligations of
pacific settlement provided in the present Charter.

3. The proceedings of the General Assembly in respect of
matters brought to its attention under this Article will be sub-
ject to the provisions of Articles 11 and 12.

ARTICLE 36

1. The Security Council may, at any stage of a dispute of
the nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like
nature, recommend appropriate procedures or methods of ad-
justment.

2. The Security Council should take into consideration any
procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already
been adopted by the parties.

3. In making recommendations under this Article the
Security Council should also take into consideration that legal
disputes should as a general rule be referred by the parties to
the International Court of Justice in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Statute of the Court.

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1. All Members of the United Nations, in order to con-
tribute to the maintenance of international peace and security,
undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call
and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements,
armed forces, assistance, and facilities, including rights of
passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international
peace and security.

2. Such agreement or agreements shall govern the numbers
and types of forces, their degree of readiness and general loca-
tion, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be pro-
vided.

3. The agreement or agreements shall be negotiated as
soon as possible on the initiative of the Security Council. They
shall be concluded between the Security Council and Members
or between the Security Council and groups of Members and
shall be subject to ratification by the signatory states in ac-
cordance with their respective constitutional processes.

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1. There shall be established a Military Staff Committee
to advise and assist the Security Council on all questions relat-
ing to the Security Council's military requirements for the main-
tenance of international peace and security, the employment
and command of forces placed at its disposal, the regulation
of armaments, and possible disarmament.

2. The Military Staff Committee shall consist of the Chiefs
of Staff of the permanent members of the Security Council or
their representatives. Any Member of the United Nations not
permanently represented on the Committee shall be invited by
the Committee to be associated with it when the efficient dis-
charge of the Committee's responsibilities requires the partici-
pation of that Member in its work.

3. The Military Staff Committee shall be responsible under
the Security Council for the strategic direction of any armed

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