financial and budgetary arrangements with specialized agencies referred to in Article 57 and shall examine the administrative budgets of such specialized agencies with a view to making recommendations to the agencies concerned.

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ARTICLE 18

in the realization of human rights and fundamental free-
doms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language,
or religion.

2. The further responsibilities, functions and powers of the
General Assembly with respect to matters mentioned in para-
graph 1(b) above are set forth in Chapters IX and X.

ARTICLE 14
Subject to the provisions of Article 12, the General Assem-
bly may recommend measures for the peaceful adjustment of
any situation, regardless of origin, which it deems likely to
impair the general welfare or friendly relations among nations,
including situations resulting from a violation of the provisions
of the present Charter setting forth the Purposes and Principles
of the United Nations.

ARTICLE 15
1. The General Assembly shall receive and consider annual
and special reports from the Security Council; these reports
shall include an account of the measures that the Security Coun-
cil has decided upon or taken to maintain international peace
and security.

2. The General Assembly shall receive and consider reports
from the other organs of the United Nations.

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.

ARTICLE 16

ARTICLE 19

The General Assembly shall perform such functions with
respect to the international trusteeship system as are assigned to
it under Chapters XII and XIII, including the approval of the
trusteeship agreements for areas not designated as strategic.

ARTICLE 17

1. The General Assembly shall consider and approve the
budget of the Organization.

2. The expenses of the Organization shall be borne by the Members as apportioned by the General Assembly.

· 3. The General Assembly shall consider and approve any

ments.

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ARTICLE 28

CHAPTER VI
PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

ARTICLE 33

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 Organizati as in its judgment will
best facilitate its work.

1. The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is
likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and
security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, en-
quiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement,
resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful
means of their own choice.

2. The Security Council shall, when it deems necessary,
call

upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means.

ARTICLE 29

ARTICLE 34

The Security Council may establish such subsidiary organs as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions.

ARTICLE 30

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.

action under Article 36 or to recommend such terms of settle-
ment as it

may consider appropriate.

ARTICLE 38
Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 33 to 37,
the Security Council may, if all the parties to any dispute so
request, make recommendations to the parties with a view to a
pacific settlement of the dispute.

CHAPTER VII
ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THREATS TO THE PEACE,
BREACHES OF THE PEACE,
AND ACTS OF AGGRESSION

ARTICLE 39

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 consideratfon 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.

ARTICLE 37
1. Should the parties to a dispute of the nature referred to
in Article 33 fail to settle it by the means indicated in that
Article, they shall refer it to the Security Council.

2. If the Security Council deems that the continuance of
the dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of
international peace and security, it shall decide whether to take

measures.