Charter of the United Nations

CHAPTER XVI

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Article 102

1. Every treaty and every international agreement entered into by
any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes
into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the
Secretariat and published by it.
2. No party to any such treaty or international agreement which
has not been registered in accordance with the provisions of
paragraph I of this Article may invoke that treaty or agreement
before any organ of the United Nations.

Article 103

In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Members
of the United Nations under the present Charter and their
obligations under any other international agreement, their
obligations under the present Charter shall prevail.

Article 104

The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its
Members such legal capacity as may be necessary for the exercise
of its functions and the fulfillment of its purposes.

Article 105

1. The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its
Members such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the
fulfillment 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 connection with the Organization.
3. The General Assembly may make recommendations with a view to
determining the details of the application of paragraphs 1 and 2
of this Article or may propose conventions to the Members of the
United Nations for this purpose.

CHAPTER XVII

TRANSITIONAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS

Article 106

Pending the coming into force of such special agreements referred
to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Security Council enable
it to begin the exercise of its responsibilities under Article
42, the parties to the Four-Nation Declaration, signed at Moscow
October 30, 1943, and France, shall, in accordance with the
provisions of paragraph 5 of that Declaration, consult with one
another and as occasion requires with other Members of the United
Nations with a view to such joint action on behalf of the
Organization as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining
international peace and security.

Article 107

Nothing in the present Charter shall invalidate or preclude
action, in relation to any state which during the Second World
War has been an enemy of any signatory to the present Charter,
taken or authorized as a result of that war by the Governments
having responsibility for such action.

CHAPTER XVIII

AMENDMENTS

Article 108

Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for all
Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted by a
vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly and
ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional
processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations,
including all the permanent members of the Security Council.

Article 109

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 seven 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 ratified
in accordance with their respective constitutional processes 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 decided by a
majority vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a
vote of any seven members of the Security Council.

CHAPTER XIX

RATIFICATION AND SIGNATURE

Article 110

1. The present Charter shall be ratified by the signatory states
in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.
2. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Government 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 respective
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 transmitted 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.

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