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1. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship
agreements, made under Articles 77, 79, and 81, placing each
territory under the trusteeship system, and until such agreements
have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed
in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of
any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international
instruments to which Members of the United Nations may
respectively be parties.

2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be interpreted as giving grounds for delay or postponement of the negotiation

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1. All functions of the United Nations relating to strategic areas, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Security Council.

2. The basic objectives set forth in Article 76 shall be
applicable to the people of each strategic area.

3. The Security Council shall, subject to the provisions of
the trusteeship agreements and without prejudice to security
considerations, avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship
Council to perform those functions of the United Nations
under the trusteeship system relating to political, economic,
social, and educational matters in the strategic areas.

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1. The Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following Members of the United Nations:

a. those Members administering trust territories;
b. such of those Members mentioned by name in Article
23 as are not administering trust territories; and

c. as many other Members elected for three-year terms
by the General Assembly as may be necessary to ensure that
the total number of members of the Trusteeship Council is
equally divided between those Members of the United
Nations which administer trust territories and those which
do not.

2. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall designate
one specially qualified person to represent it therein.

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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

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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.

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