CHAPTER I
PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES

Article 1

The Purposes of the United Nations are:

1. To achieve international co-operation in ensuring the ongoing protection of Earth from any external threat that may cause major climactic trauma and loss of life;

2. To ensure that a clear and concise disaster recovery plan exists for every community of people in every nation for every real and potential climactic and geothermal event so that if such an event occurs the member state and the world are able to immediately assist in firstly saving lives and secondly in helping rebuild happy communities;

3. To achieve international co-operation in the common development and research of space including permanently staffed space stations and the ultimate goal of restoring a habitable atmosphere for life on planet Mars.

4. 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 justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;

5. 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;

6. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion;

7. To ensure all human beings across the world have fair access to adequate food, shelter and clean drinking water and that no person shall be forced to live in poverty or destitution;

8. To develop and provide a common framework for the free and fair trade of goods and services of nations and corporates and the most efficient and effective financial instruments to enable monetary exchange and financial management for the world;

9. To classify, standardize, protect and promote the unity of common knowledge and wisdom of humanity that resides in its sciences, arts, religion and philosophy so that all human beings from the age of six will have the capacity to read, write and speak a major language and be aware of the common knowledge, customs and knowledge of humanity; and

To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.

Article 2

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.

The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.

All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.

All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.

All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.

All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.

The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security and the fulfillment of the purposes and principles outlined in Article 1 of this Charter.

Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     


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