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CHAPTER 19

REC #2 HATONN

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 11:23 A.M. YEAR 4 DAY 33

AND SO IT WAS

In the midst of circumstances which are great indeed, it is hard to settle to the resumption of old-hat relativities but none-the-less that is exactly that which we shall settle unto doing. Remember that ALL do not even begin to accept such a notion as we are presenting unto you in all of this material coming forth and they can and will only see as they can compare and confirm. We shall move on "as if" there is no ending, chela, and no beginning--we shall move on in truth and steady outlay. Peace be unto thine heart as the burden falls first unto you ones.

Place yesterday's Express at approximately "Chapter two" or wherever order will outlay in proper sequence for I shall continue this portion as of summer/fall, 1982.

It is now the proper time to speak of what happened to the planned nuclear war strike for obviously it was averted. Further, you need to relate to timing of events and impacts which otherwise hold forefront attention at given calendar cycles.

Throughout the Middle Ages the Christians of Central Europe shared a terrible fear which is all but forgotten today. It was a fear which caused Christian parents to exercise special care over their children at the time of the Jewish holy day of Passover. Their greatest dread was that their child might be kidnapped and never seen again because it was widely believed that the Jews practiced human sacrifice at Passover and that the victims were Christian children. That ancient blood fear of the Jews by Christians largely died out in the centuries following the Renaissance. Today most Christians are shocked to learn that any such belief ever existed.

As for the Jews themselves, there is a rabbinical term that is used to condemn the ancient Christian blood-fear. It is called "blood libel". For generations now, the old issue of blood libel has been essentially a dead one, a thing of the past. No Jew in his right mind would want it otherwise. To revive the issue of blood libel is to resurrect ancient fears, unreasoning passions, and mortal danger to every Jew alive. Yes, most Jews would be better off if they never again heard about the ancient Christian blood-fear of the Jews, but IN SEPTEMBER, 1982, THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL DELIBERATELY REVIVED THE SO-CALLED "BLOOD LIBEL" ISSUE!
Over the weekend of September 17, 1982, Israeli forces introduced so-called
Christian Militiamen into two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut. The result was a massacre of over a thousand Palestinian civilians, including many women, children, and elderly people. Word of the massacre reached the outside world on the evening of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, September 18. An outraged world blamed the Begin government for allowing such a heinous crime to take place.

The Israeli Government's official reply to the world was a statement issued on Sunday, September 19. It was published two days later as a full-page advertisement in major American newspapers with the headline "BLOOD LIBEL". The statement began with the words:

"On the New Year of Rosh Ilashana a blood libel was leveled against the Jewish State, its government, and the Israeli Defense Forces-otherwise known as the IDF."

The statement then continued with a series of statements which only days later were proven to be total lies. The official Israeli Government statement said the massacre took place:

"...in an area where there was no position of the Israeli army."

Yet the very next day after this statement was published, the Israeli Defense Minister Sharon flatly contradicted it. On September 22 Sharon admitted that the Israelis not only introduced the Militiamen into these camps but also supported them with air-borne flares. The official Israeli Government advertisement also said,

"As soon as the 1DF learned of the tragic events, Israeli soldiers put an end to the slaughter."

That, too, was a lie, and numerous reports immediately surfaced to prove that it was a lie.

FACTS

The fact is that the Israeli troops had orders to surround and cut off the two Palestinian camps while the Militiamen did the dirtywork. From start to finish, top Israeli officials knew exactly what was going on. They had ordered the entire operation and were kept well informed of its progress. By calling the accusations against them "blood libel", the Begin government acknowl­edged that the Beirut massacre was a subhuman act of bloodthirsty evil but the transparent lies about it by the Begin government reflected the fact that the charges against it were not libel--THEY WERE TRUTH!

It was no accident that the Beirut massacre was centered around Friday, September 17. September 17 was scheduled to be a day of nuclear massacre. That was the day when the supersecret "Project Z" nuclear war plan was to be set off. If all had gone according to plan, a surprise American nuclear first strike against Russia was scheduled for that day but, by the grace of your Lord Jesus Christ, all did not go according to plan. The "Project Z" nuclear strike plan was finally aborted. Around mid-morning September 17 the countdown clock stopped--less than five hours short of Nuclear War One!! The final decision to abort the strike ended a week of fierce debate at the top levels of the Reagan-Begin axis of Bolsheviks and Zionists.

Meanwhile, another war plan had already been set in motion to replace it. The Beirut massacre, which was already underway on September 17, was a key ingredient in the new military intrigues underway, but the massacre was also motivated by sheer insane frenzy. It was the blind frenzy of Satanic and demonic forces who saw their goal of nuclear victory slip away just when it seemed within their grasp.

NOW PAY ATTENTION

THE PLAN FOR NUCLEAR STRIKE IN CURRENT TIMING WAS ORIGINALLY SET FOR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990--ROSII HASHANA!!!! The things necessary to pull off the attack could not be orchestrated in timely manner to go with laid-forth plans. What will happen? I shudder!

Gorbachev went to reason with Shamir who refused to discuss even postponement of the attack; then a sham reason for his conference with Israel was laid to commercial interests. Well, the shuttle still sits on its pad but that does not mean that in the Frenzy of thwarted plans there will not be some mad-man strike of some heinous form on September 20th--day after tomorrow. The plans of massive blueprinted alternative dates was shifted to October 3rd. I did not lay this load on you before this for you would have been targeted immediately and this time they really meant business--this gives us a bit more time to regroup ourselves.

In 1982 the major thing that spared you was that on September 10 the Russians took out your newly operational Air Force Space Command Indian Ocean Satellite which was to sensor destruction and allow the remainder of the plan to "work". Panic reigned in the balance for it was fully expected that Russia would retaliate with a full-blown first strike of her own. When you are dealing with Satanic mad-men you cannot tell which way they will turn or what panic stupidity they will pull. We just sit on the dynamite detonators and sweat, chelas. Our "probabilities" projection is that Israel may be partially held in check--they do not have capability for carrying off such a massive world strike as would be required without the U.S. in unison. Will they do something to precipitate matters? Probably! I await the changing possibilities, as do you.

We are moving with our work as quickly as earthly possible under the circumstances and we do not pound ourselves for that which man will not see or hear--we do that which is our task; we make the truth available with whatever positive suggestions we can offer--the rest is up to his own decision. At this time we do not expect U.S. strikes if the world leaders keep a cool head--nor Russian strikes, for that matter, for that will bite off more than Israel can chew so the anticipation is that, if there is an incident of nuclear magnitude, it will be localized to the Middle East. SO, WE CONTINUE JUST AS WE ARE--BUT GET THESE OTHER THINGS TENDED FOR MAN IS GOING TO START LISTENING RIGHT QUICK NOW AND SHORTAGES WILL PREVAIL AND I WANT YOU ONES PREPARED FOR YOU HAVE NO TIME TO WAIT IN LINES OR FOR NEW SHIPMENTS--ACT NOW!

Take this from the machine, Dharma, and give unto Oberli for decisions regarding that which to do with it in timely manner. The opening portion will be removed for the sending forth as it is personal instructions to you right here in this location. Thank you.

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CHAPTER 20

REC #2 HATONN

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1990 11:25 A.M. YEAR 4 DAY 34

CALLING OFF A WAR

What happens and how does one go about "calling off a war"? What happens if you call a war and nobody comes? Well, as you saw from the prior Express--ones who want the war often create a heinous mess of things. But wars of great magnitude often are shut down and have been several times just within your past ten years. This is why there is hope of hopes that man will pay attention and buy yourselves some more "time" by calling this one off. Remember that this one was planned to happen tomorrow, September 20--Rosh Hashana! As we write herein--we cannot know for sure that it is all shut down completely but we move forward as if it were for we have no alternative and it would be beyond stupid of Israel to move to precipitate it. It is in­credible that it would even be considered for October 3rd for you still are working at magnificent disadvantage space-wise. But where have all your children gone? Where ARE all those soldiers? The bases are all but empty and now they announce that 127 bases in Europe and elsewhere are being closed as of the beginning fiscal year--brothers, that is October 1. That means that those 127 bases are empty! NOW! These are prime targets for retali­ation, dear ones--do you begin to get the picture?

I will tell you right now that a lot of your sons and husbands are in the desert in Mexico and Africa--some are simply in tent cities within the Mojave Desert and Death Valley areas. This has been set up and prepared far, far in advance and for over ten years foreign forces have infiltrated your country. There are foreigners of Asian decent all along your Mississippi River from lakes to ocean, ready to blow all bridges when the sign is given. This is NOT NEW NEWS! THIS HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO YOU SLEEPING CHILDREN FOR OVER TEN YEARS!!!!!!! IT IS PLANNED TO COMBINE MEXICO AND THE U.S. INTO TEN OR SO NATIONS UNDER ONE CONTROL WITH A SINGLE BORDER AT CANADA--IT WILL NOT INCLUDE CANADA SIMPLY BECAUSE OF GREAT BRITAIN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE OVERALL PLAN. THIS IS WHY THERE IS SUCH THRUST FOR THE FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO; SO IT WONT WORK, AND THE GROUNDWORK WOULD BE LAID FORTH TO SIMPLY COMBINE THE NETWORK. THE DIVISIONS WILL INCLUDE THE NEW-STATES PROJECTION AS WELL AS ETHNIC ORIGIN SEPARATIONS.

Hatonn nuts? I wish it could be so simple--no, I am not nuts, but you have been sleeping for a very long while.

Let us look back to 1982 once again so that we can again relate happenings in generalization.

The final Pentagon plans for Nuclear War One was that it erupt on September 17, 1982. As the final days ticked away, major snags began to develop in the rush-rush War Timetable--just as today except that this time you have one further and moved thousands into the Saudi desert and set-up an all but irreversible world situation.

In 1982 the final decision to scrub the planned nuclear first-strike against Russia virtually was at the last minute--literally.

The first H-bombs were to be detonated on key Russian targets at 3:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time on Sept 17. The order to scrub the attack went out less than five hours before that--shortly after 10:00 A.M. that very morning! When a decision finally came to abort the attack, it was a "judgment" call and that judgment was far from popular with some members of the elite Bolshevik war-planning team in the Pentagon.

The snags which developed were serious but not serious enough to completely rule out an attempted nuclear strike. As a result, the war-planning group became splintered into acrimonious debate over what to do. No one argued in favor of giving up the basic goal of attacking Russia but there was a sharp division over how best to save the nuclear war plan. Basically the argument boiled down to two alternatives--whether to postpone the nuclear strike, or whether to go ahead as planned.

The hotheads insisted that the surprise nuclear attack against Russia should proceed on schedule on September 17. They argued that in spite of the problems which had cropped up, delay would only give time for even more obstacles to develop. They also pointed out that their Intelligence on Russian targets would gradually grow stale with delay. In effect they said, "NOW IS OUR BEST CHANCE."

The more conservative faction among the war-planners insisted that the hotheads were not thinking straight. In their view, the hitches which developed in the war plan were too serious to go ahead--better to wait and reschedule the Project Z war plan after removing the then present obstacles to success.

The debate began to tip in favor of a postponement one week before the September 17 target date. For that reason, other contingency plans were set in motion in the Middle East during that final week but the nuclear strike plan remained in effect right down to the wire. In the end, it was an accumulation of many factors which finally caused the plan to be aborted.

The American Bolsheviks started running into trouble in their rush-crash nuclear war plan almost as soon as it started early in the year. A short-cut nuclear plan had been implemented by the Pentagon around the first of the year and the Rockefeller cartel and the Russians were lining up to try to stop the war plan. To that end they had agreed to start working together against the American Bolsheviks in certain ways. On top of that, a coup d'etat was brewing in Washington to be led by General Alexander Haig, then Secretary of State. The consequences of that three-way struggle filled your news headlines.

First came the Falklands War in April, which was not about sheep and settlers but about secret weapons installations. The secret Pentagon war plan received a severe blow in that skirmish but the Bolsheviks soon struck back. In June they destroyed the Haig coup d'etat. At the same time the brutal Israeli invasion of Lebanon was underway right on the timetable which had been made public the prior year, if anyone had been paying attention to our information, and which Sharon, Defense Minister of Israel, confirmed the latter week in September of 1982--in the Knesset. And then there was the fourth Space Shuttle which carried the Defense Department payload into orbit to prepare for war.

WARNING SHOTS THEN AS NOW

By mid-summer of 1982 leaders of both America and Russia were making statements that the superpowers were already at war. The Russians started firing warning shots across America's bow by way of weather modification, airplane disasters, and more. Finally, on August 12 the Russians used sheer intimidation to abort the Israeli plan for an incredibly bloody invasion of Beirut. Suddenly the PLO evacuation talks bore fruit and the evacuation went off without a hitch. It was a serious blow to the joint Bolshevik-Zionist efforts to create an atmosphere of mushrooming crises as a prelude to nuclear war.

For about two weeks the atmosphere of world crises appeared to almost evaporate but the Pentagon war clock was still counting down toward September 17--and the Russians knew it. On September 2 the Soviet Union abruptly DISCONNECTED ALL DIRECT DIAL TELEPHONE SERVICE TO AND FROM THE WEST. Instead, military operators took over. It was an extension of the telephone cutbacks which had begun months earlier. To the top Pentagon war strategists, the Russian telephone service cutback of September 2 seemed like some small potatoes. They had bigger things to worry about--namely, a serious turn of events in Red China.

WHAT ABOUT RED CHINA?

On September 1 Communist Party Chairman Hu Yaobang had dropped a bombshell at the Party Congress in Peking. He declared that China should no longer ally itself with the U.S. against Russia; instead Hu said China should regard both superpowers as equal threats but at the same time he included some conciliatory language toward Russia and said high Russian officials would come to China to begin talks around mid-month at China's invitation! By disowning the Sino-American alliance, Hu Yaobang made it clear that the secret American Stealth attack-base in China was in serious jeopardy.

That base, located in Red China's western Sinkiang Province, was essential for the intended attack on Russia's two Cosmosphere bases in Siberia. That war base was the reason for the joint communique of August 17 by the U.S. and Red China concerning Taiwan of which we have already written. The communique committed the U.S. to discontinue arms delivery to Taiwan at some future date in violation of Reagan's past pledges. The communique was agreed to in order to head off a threatened shutdown of the Stealth base by the Chinese, but it was not enough to satisfy the Chinese.

NIXON'S HOT-FOOT TRIP TO CHINA

On September 6 former President Richard Nixon arrived in Peking, adding further to the troubles of the Pentagon war-planners. Nixon had long been a client follower of the Rockefeller cartel, as has been pointed out in other Journals.

Nixon went to Peking as a Rockefeller envoy and one with far more credibility for the Chinese than anyone the Bolsheviks had. Nixon shocked the Chinese by confirming what Russian sources had already told them--that the Stealth base was about to be used in war. Nixon then counseled them not to shut down the base outright at that time for fear of undesirable reactions by the trigger-happy Pentagon Bolsheviks. Instead, he urged the Chinese to start interfering with operation of the Stealth base by bureaucratic devices. That is one thing the Chinese are very, very good at, and they accepted Nixon's advice.

Ah, some of you softly murmur, "Do you suppose that is why Nixon is somehow back on the inside with the Big Boys with library openings, etc.--to get him off the screw-up-the-war team!" Good observation! Another equally excellent observation would he to make sure you peer at the "same" Richard Nixon!!!!

By that September 9 the American Stealth base in Sinkiang Province was effectively out of action. Critical base personnel were tangled up in Chinese red tape, preventing them from reporting for duty. The Chinese were giving hints to Washington that all this was due to continued dissatisfaction over Taiwan but the real reason was that they wanted no part of a nuclear war with Russia and Russia would have taken that base out right off the top.

The Kremlin received word through Rockefeller channels on September 9 that the Sinkiang Province Stealth base had been effectively neutralized. At that point the Russians could rest assured that even if the Pentagon went through with its nuclear attack plan, Russia's Cosmospheres would survive quite nicely. Russia's critical space triad of strategic weapons COULD NO LONGER BE DESTROYED.

DESTRUCTION OF SENSOR

The time had come to carry out the most dangerous step in the Kremlin plan to unravel the Pentagon nuclear war plan. The time had come to destroy the Attack Confirmation Sensor placed in space by the Space Shuttle in June. The Attack Confirmation Sensor was a special satellite placed in geostationary orbit over the Indian Ocean by an auxiliary rocket. It was a cryogenic satellite--that is, it was maintained at super-cold temperatures close to absolute zero. This cold state was intended to protect the satellite from detection by Russian space weapons which would be partially based on "heat" sensors.

It is time for you to ready yourself for the "shopping", Dharma. We will continue with this chapter in the next writing. Salu.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 6:25 A.M. YEAR 4 DAY 35

RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGY

For several years prior to 1982 the American scientific Intelligence analysts knew that the Russians had a new technology for target acquisition. The Russian technique was not radar nor was it any other conventional means of detecting and tracking targets. The technique was deadly accurate, reliable, and, unlike radar, impossible to jam. Analysts were convinced they had fig­ured out what the Russian technique was. They believed it was a Russian version of computer-enhanced infra-red detection. This was then developed in the U.S. and was called CEIR (se-er).

Shortly after development, a CEIR-equipped American laser was used to shoot down a Russian Cosmosphere. All objects warmer than absolute zero emit infra-red radiation. The warmer the object is, the more infra-red it emits and the easier it is for computer-enhanced infra-red sensors to detect it. The only way to hide from CEIR is, therefore, to reduce the temperature as low as possible. That is why the Air Force Attack Confirmation Sensor was a cryogenic satellite. I think it probably becomes confirmation to our writing if you pay attention to what the government tells you about the present Shuttle pay-load. They tell you it has to do with astronomers and astronomy--for the searching out of heavenly bodies with ability to peer through cloud and electronic shields around planets and thus and so. No, it is to peer through shields hiding space stations, planetary and lunar bases and cosmospheres and cosmos interceptors, as well as peer through same to pinpoint, etc., Earth bases and thus and so.

A liquid helium cooling system was originally used to keep the satellite only a few degrees above absolute zero, reducing infra-red emissions to nearly nothing.

The cryogenic design of the Air Force satellite was what gave the Bolshevik war planners so much confidence that it would succeed. They were sure that the Russians would be unable to find it in time to destroy it before it was used in war. But, WRONG! The Pentagon Bolsheviks were wrong about the new Russian target-tracking technique. It was not an infra-red technique at all; instead, it was a revolutionary system which detects the atomic vibrations of matter. The Russians call it Psychoenergetic Range Finding, or PRF. The Russians regarded it as their master secret weapon. The longer it remained a mystery to the American Bolsheviks, the better it would be for Russia and so, when Space Shuttle #4 launched the Air Force cryogenic sensor in June, the Russians began the game playing.

Instead of destroying the satellite right away, they allowed it to be orbited successfully. The Russians knew that the Attack Confirmation satellite could do them no harm until war itself was about to begin, so they allowed it to stay there untouched for as long as possible. The result was exactly as expected: The long-term survival of the Air Force Sensor convinced the Bolsheviks that they were right about Russia using CEIR. The Pentagon had walked into a major intelligence blunder and the Russians were encouraging them to keep it up.

Throughout the summer Rockefeller cartel operatives within the CIA fed updates about the Pentagon war plan to the Russians. Those reports continued to say that the war timetable was remaining unchanged, targeted for mid-September so the Russian Space Command let the Air Force Sensor alone for the interim time.

Meanwhile, the Russians began preparing in a totally unsuspected way for the moment when they would destroy the satellite. Those preparations had to do with Russia's International Telephone service.

TELEPHONES

First, in June the Soviet Union drastically reduced the number of telephone links to the West. They also made clouded threats to reduce service still further at a later date. In order to keep the Intelligence analysts from guessing what was afoot, the Russians resorted to a little disinformation in the right places. They created falsified leaks that there were unsettled conditions in the Kremlin, a power struggle. The Bolsheviks in the U.S., who are always struggling for power, swallowed the bait completely.

The next major step was to suddenly cut off all automatic dialing service to and from the West. The U.S. Bolsheviks were startled but still did not suspect what it really meant. They were too preoccupied with rumblings of trouble in China to worry for long about Russia s telephones.

For the final step the Kremlin waited, hoping that the maneuvers to disrupt
the Stealth base in Sinkiang Province would succeed. On September 9 they
received the "Mission Accomplished" signal from the Rockefeller cartel. The Sinkiang base was temporarily incapacitated, thanks to Nixon's recommended bureaucratic entanglement by the Chinese.

The next morning Friday September 10, there was a sudden total shutdown of most International Telephone service to and from Russia but, in order to send a message to America's Bolshevik war planners, a few selected circuits were kept open. Those included Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk and Tallinn. Their significance lay in the fact that none were targets planned for the initial Stealth attack, which has been detailed already.

The phone lines were cut off at 7:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, or 2:10 P.M. Moscow time. Moments later the Russian Space Command went to work. A Russian Jumbo Cosmosphere was parked in a pseudo-orbit about two miles above the Air Force Attack Confirmation satellite. It had been there for well over two months--from the moment the satellite was launched into orbit from Space Shuttle #4. By using its electromagnetic propulsion system at low power the Cosmosphere had remained on station instead of slowly drifting away as a normal satellite would and, parked as it was above the downward-looking Air Force satellite, the presence of the Cosmosphere was never detected.

The time had come! The Cosmosphere aimed its beam weapon and fired. Shortly after 7:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, September 10, there was very bad news for the Bolsheviks. At the newly operational Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs there was a sudden loss of signal from their Indian Ocean satellite. At first they could not believe that their critical Attack Confirmation satellite had been attacked. All sorts of things were tried in an effort to re-establish contact with the satellite--all to no avail. The satellite no longer existed!

REACTION TO SENSOR DESTRUCTION

You see, it really didn't matter--except to YOU! The Americans were going to be sucked into a totally annihilating war because the Sensor was no good at any rate and the Russians could easily counter anything you could send their way. We are speaking herein about reactions and actions regarding the planned war--not what WAS or was not possible. We are talking about MEN PLANNING AN ALL-OUT NUCLEAR WAR! YOUR COUNTRY, BROTHERS! FIRST STRIKE!

As that Friday morning of September 10 wore on, the "Project Z" war planners were convened in crisis conference. The question at hand was: What do we do now?

For a while there was an atmosphere of near panic. Some were sure that a first strike by Russia was sure to follow and that the Pentagon should push the Nuclear Button without delay. Others argued that if that were the Kremlin's intention, it was already too late--Russia's missiles would be on the way already. At the opposite extreme someone suggested that the whole Project Z war plan be aborted and rescheduled later on. You see, they never stop planning; they simply start rescheduling just as they have right up to TODAY! TODAY--ROSH HASHANA 1990--WAS TARGET DAY FOR THIS YEAR AND HAS NOW BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 3RD. BUT THERE MUST BE MAJOR INCIDENT(S) PRIOR TO THE BIG­GIE. But look at the same scenario being acted out--you have incredible unrest from South Africa to the Philippines and completely engulfing the Middle East. The only place which has any relatively non-news is "what are the Israelis doing in Palestine, etc.?" Nervous yet? You most certainly had better be! You are getting ready to send in a big whopping bunch of arms and money to Israel in addition to all that they already get from you. Check your immediate Congressional committee hearings as well as the hearings regarding the forgiveness of Egyptian debt. How do I get more specific? Do you have to experience the disaster to hear the warning? IF THIS DOESN'T COME OFF, YOU AS A NATION WILL ASSUME FALSE INFOR­MATION--NO, YOU WILL HAVE EXPERIENCED A "FEW" DOING INCREDIBLE EFFORT TO SAVE YOUR AS--ER--NECKS!

Everyone agreed on one thing: without the Attack Confirmation Sensor, any attack on Russia had become far more risky. After launching the Stealth planes from Norway and Turkey, it would just have to be assumed that they had destroyed their targets. BUT, YOU SEE, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE! With the Attack Confirmation satellite gone there would be no way to confirm that, so the all-out follow-up attack by America's nuclear forces might run into a lot more than just the trouble which might have been expected. I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT THE SAME IS TRUE THIS DAY!!! YOU ARE WALKING STUPIDLY INTO A BOTTOMLESS PIT OF VIPERS AND THE WORLD SHALL BE THE LOSER!

There is, however, always the idiot who wields a lot of power and uses it. At one point someone back then remarked to the effect, "We can still go with the back-up plan--every target in Russia that is attacked by our birds will be obliterated. If International Telephone service to Russian target areas is suddenly cut off at zero hour, we can assume that our birds made it."

There is an old military saying you use that goes, "There is always someone who didn't get the word." The planner who suggested falling back from the back-up plan based on telephones proved once again how true that saying is. Nearly everyone shouted at him, "The phones to Russia are already shut down."

The Russians kept the International phone lines shut down for seven hours that day. They wanted to make sure that if the Pentagon Bolsheviks pushed the Panic Button, they would obtain absolutely no Intelligence at all by monitoring telephone circuits. After the first two hours or so of the blackout, Secretary of State George Shultz was accosted by reporters about it. Shultz told them, "It is very significant," but would say no more.

By the time Washingtonians were finishing their lunch that day, a decision had been reached about what to do:

Project Z WOULD CONTINUE ON SCHEDULE, targeted for the following Friday, September 17. Meanwhile, every effort would be made to cut through the Chinese red tape that was restricting use of the critical base in Sinkiang Province. At the same time, it was decided to set other plans in motion, too, just in case Project Z should finally fall through.

That is how it stood through the week leading up to Z-Day, September 17. The Project Z first-strike plan was in deep trouble, yet it was still on track--regardless. It had been decided that if nothing else went wrong, the surprise attack on Russia would still be launched on the 17th, come what might.

WELL, WHAT HAPPENED, HATONN?!?

Just as you can save your fannies now if you take action, you might alter the course of history and create a new course in miracles.

The straw that broke the camel's back came at almost the last possible minute on Friday morning, September 17. At about 8:30 A.M. in Washington, a WELL-KNOWN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER REPORTER WAS INTERVIEWED ON THE WASHINGTON NBC RADIO STATION, WRC. THE REPORTER OF THE WASHINGTON POST CALLED ATTENTION TO THE WAR WARNING SET FORTH IN EXACTLY THIS SAME MANNER, PRECIOUS ONES. HE OUTLINED THE PLAN BRIEFLY FOR EVERYONE LISTENING IN THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA, AND HE ADDED THAT, "IF THE PENTAGON DID HAVE SUCH A PLAN, PUBLIC EXPOSURE THROUGH INFORMATION BROUGHT FORTH HAD PROBABLY REDUCED THE CHANCES THAT IT WOULD BE CARRIED OUT!"

PAY ATTENTION: THAT RADIO REPORT ABOUT THE WAR PLAN ON THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 17 WAS SEEMINGLY SUCH A SMALL THING, BUT OUR CREATOR CAN ALWAYS USE LITTLE THINGS TO PRODUCE VERY BIG RESULTS--AND THAT IS WHAT HE DID ON THAT "DEATH DAY" MORNING.

You see, many had listened just as many of you listen, read and recognize truth and confirmation of this truth. Thanks to those of you who had written to editors, Congressmen, and officials of all kinds about the war plan, the Pentagon was very edgy. The last thing they wanted was public exposure to their war plan. It doesn't matter that millions would be lost and there would probably be no one to complain later--the facts are that Satan cannot bear the unveiling--the uncovering of his deceitful lies and heinous plans--SATAN CANNOT FUNCTION IN THE LIGHT OF GOD AND TRUTH!

THE FIRST STRIKE WAS CALLED OFF WITH LESS THAN FIVE HOURS TO GO. THE COUNTDOWN CLOCK FOR NUCLEAR WAR ONE HAD STOPPED TICKING---FOR THAT DATE. IT HAS BEEN ABORTED IN THE COUNTDOWN SOME THREE TIMES SINCE 1982 AND IS NOW TICKING AGAIN--RIGHT ON SCHEDULE!! IF THE PLAN FOR OCTOBER 3 IS ABORTED, YOU CAN BEGIN TO EXPECT HEAVY INVOLVEMENT IN HEINOUS INCIDENTS ALL ABOUT THE PLACE AND DISASTROUS ACTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST--BUT THE COUNTDOWN WILL AGAIN RESUME FOR DECEMBER 3RD, 1990. WATCH THE SHUTTLES AND ROCKET LAUNCHES AND THEN WATCH ACTIVITIES AND LIES THEY TELL YOU!

Dharma, let us close this Journal. Here seems to be a good breaking point so that the information can go forth in timely manner. There is no way to get the information forth in truly timely manner but we shall do that which is humanly possible for you must get on with preparations for the time of scarcity and need. By acting now, chela, you can be self-contained for quite a while and remain functional. Make sure you have adequate materials for writing such as paper, ribbons and other necessities computer-wise. If this place goes down, we shall certainly go down with great difficulty. Man will have been given enough truth to know and get confirmation of the stories--then, ye shall release the burden unto God for you can do no more. Salu.

May enough hear the call to act!

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON ALL YE CHILDREN OF HUMAN
FORM.

Hatonn to close this Journal. Thank you.

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APPENDIX

UNITED NATIONS

CHARTER

UN Charter

Reprint:

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco at the con­clusion of the United Nations Conference on In­ternational Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the Inter­national Court of Justice is an integral part of the Charter.

Amendments to Articles 23, 27 and 61 of the Charter were adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 1963 and came into force on 31 August 1965. The amendment to Article 109, adopted by the General Assembly on 20 Decem­ber 1965, came into force on 12 June 1968.

The amendment to Article 23 enlarges the membership of the Security Council from eleven to fifteen. The amended Article 27 provides that decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven) and. on all other matters by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven), including the con­curring votes of the five permanent members of the Security Council.

The amendment to Article 61 enlarges the membership of the Economic and Social Council from eighteen to twenty-seven.

The amendment to Article 109, which relates to the first paragraph of that Article, provides that a General Conference of Member States for the purpose of reviewing the 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 (formerly seven) of the Security Council. Para­graph 3 of Article 109, which deals with the con­sideration of a possible review conference during the tenth regular session of the General Assem­bly, has been retained in original form in its reference to a 'vote of any seven members of the Security Council', the paragraph having been acted upon in 1955 by the General Assem­bly, at its tenth regular session, and by the Se­curity Council.

CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS

WE THE PEOPLES
OF THE UNITED NATIONS
DETERMINED

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our life­time has brought untold sorrow to man­kind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

AND FOR THESE ENDS

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neigh­bours, and
to unite our strength to maintain inter­national peace and security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the com­mon interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

HAVE RESOLVED TO
COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO
ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS

Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organi­zation to be known as the United Nations.

CHAPTER I

PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES

Article 1

The Purposes of the United Nations are:

1. 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;

2. 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;

3. 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; and

4. 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 I, shall act in accordance with the following Prin­ciples.

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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 requite 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 VII.

CHAPTER II

MEMBERSHIP

Article 3

The original Members of the United Na­tions shall be the states which, having participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, or having previously signed the Dec­laration by United Nations of 1 January

1942, sign the present Charter and ratify it in accordance with Article 110.

Article 4

1. Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the pres­ent Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.

2. The admission of any such state to membership in the United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General As­sembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

Article 5

A Member of the United Nations against which preventive or enforcement action has been taken by the Security Council may be suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. The exercise of these rights and privileges may be restored by the Secur­ity Council.

Article 6

A Member of the United Nations which has persistently violated the Principles contained the present Charter may be expelled from

the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

CHAPTER III

ORGANS

Article 7

1. There are established as the principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International Court of Justice, and a Secretariat.

2. Such subsidiary organs as may be found necessary may be established in accordance with the present Charter.

Article 8

The United Nations shall place no restric­tions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under condi­tions of equality in its principal and subsidi­ary organs.

CHAPTER IV

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Composition

Article 9

1. The General Assembly shall consist of all the Members of the United Nations.

2. Each Member shall have not more than five representatives in the General Assembly.

Functions and Powers

Article 10

The General Assembly may discuss any questions or any matters within the scope of the present Charter or relating to the powers and functions of any organ provided for in the present Charter, and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations to the Members of the United Nations or to the Security Council or to both on any such questions or matters.

Article 11

1. The General Assembly may consider the general principles of cooperation in the maintenance of international peace and se­curity, including the principles governing disarmament and the regulation of armaments, and may make recommendations with regard to such principles to the Members or to the Security Council or to both.

2. The General Assembly may discuss any questions relating to the maintenance of international peace and security brought before by any Member of the United Nations, or the Security Council, or by a state which

is not a Member of the United Nations in accordance with Article 35, paragraph 2, and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations with regard to any such questions to the state or states concerned or to the Security Council or to both. Any such question on which action is neces­sary shall be referred to the Security Council by the General Assembly either before or after discussion.

3. The General Assembly may call the at­tention of the Security Council to situations which are likely to endanger international peace and security.

4. The powers of the General Assembly set forth in this Article shall not limit the general scope of Article 10.

Article 12

1. While the Security Council is exercising in respect of any dispute or situation the functions assigned to it in the present Charter, the General Assembly shall not make any rec­ommendation with regard to that dispute or situation unless the Security Council so requests.

2. The Secretary-General, with the consent of the Security Council, shall notify the Gen­eral Assembly at each session of any matters relative to the maintenance of international peace and security which are being dealt with by the Security Council and shall similarly notify the General Assembly, or the Members of the United Nations if the General Assem­bly is not in session, immediately the Security Council ceases to deal with such matters.

Article 13

1. The General Assembly shall initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of:

a. promoting international co-operation in the political field and encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification;

b. promoting international co-operation in the economic, social, cultural, educational, and health fields, and assisting in the realization of human rights and funda­mental freedoms 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 paragraph 1(b) above are set forth in Chapters IX and X.

Article 14

Subject to the provisions of Article 12, the General Assembly 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 13

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 Council 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.

Article 16

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 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.

Voting

Article 18

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: recommendations 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 suspension of the rights and privileges of membership, the expulsion of Members, questions relating to the operation of the trusteeship system, and budgetary questions.

3. Decisions on other questions, including the determination 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 19

A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial con­tributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the pre­ceding two full years. The General Assembly may, nevertheless, permit such a Member to vote if it is satisfied that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the Member.

Procedure

Article 20

The General Assembly shall meet in regu­lar annual sessions and in such special sessions as occasion may require. Special sessions shall be convoked by the Secretary-General at the request of the Security Council or of a majority of the Members of the United Nations.

Article 21

The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure. It shall elect its President for each session.

Article 22

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

CHAPTER V

THE SECURITY COUNCIL

Composition

Article 23

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 non­permanent 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 geographical distribution.

2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of the non­permanent members after the increase of the membership of the Security Council from eleven to fifteen, two of the four additional members shall be chosen for a term of one year. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election.

3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one representative.

Functions and Powers

Article 24

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 consideration.

Article 25

The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.

Article 26

In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources, the Security Council shall be re­sponsible for formulating, with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee referred to in Article 47, plans to be submitted to the Members of the United Nations for the es­tablishment of a system for the regulation of armaments.

Voting

Article 27

1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote.

2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members.

3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including the con­curring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.

Procedure

Article 28

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.

Article 29

The Security Council may establish such

subsidiary organs as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions.

Article 30

The Security Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its President.

Article 31

Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected;

Article 32

Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council or any state which is not a Member of the United Nations, if it is a party to a dispute under consideration by the Security Council, shall be invited to participate, without vote, in the discussion relating to the dispute. The Security Council shall lay down such condi­tions as it deems just for the participation of a state which is not a Member of the United Nations.

CHAPTER VI

PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF
DISPUTES

Article 33

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, enquiry, 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 34

The Security Council may investigate any dispute, or any situation which might lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continu­ance of the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and security.

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 subject 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 adjustment.

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 provisions 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 action under Article 36 or to recom­mend such terms of settlement 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

The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Article 40

In order to prevent an aggravation of the situation, the Security Council may, before making the recommendations or deciding upon the measures provided for in Article 39, call upon the parties concerned to comply with such provisional measures as it deems necessary or desirable. Such provisional measures shall be without prejudice to the rights, claims, or position of the parties con­cerned. The Security Council shall duly take account of failure to comply with such pro­visional measures.

Article 41

The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such meas­ures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the sev­erance of diplomatic relations.

Article 42

Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inade­quate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to main­tain or restore international peace and se­curity. Such action may include demonstra­tions, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.

Article 43

1. All Members of the United Nations, in order to contribute 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 location, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be provided.

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 ac­cordance with their respective constitutional processes.

Article 44

When the Security Council has decided to use force it shall, before calling upon a Member not represented on it to provide armed forces in fulfilment of the obligations assumed under Article 43, invite that Mem­ber, if the Member so desires, to participate in the decisions of the Security Council con­cerning the employment of contingents of that Member's armed forces.

Article 45

In order to enable the United Nations to take urgent military measures, Members shall hold immediately available national air-force contingents for combined international enforcement action. The strength and degree of readiness of these contingents and plans for their combined action shall be determined, within the limits laid down in the special agreement or agreements referred to in Ar­ticle 43, by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee.

Article 46

Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee.

Article 47

1. There shall be established a Military Staff Committee to advise and assist the Security Council on all questions relating to the Security Council's military requirements for the maintenance 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 discharge of the Committee's responsibilities requires the participation 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 forces placed at the disposal of the Security Coun­cil. Questions relating to the command of such forces shall be worked out subsequently.

4. The Military Staff Committee, with the authorization of the Security Council and after consultation with appropriate regional agencies, may establish regional sub-commit­tees.

Article 48

1. The action required to carry out the de­cisions of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security shall be taken by all the Members of the United Nations or by some of them, as the Security Council may determine.

2. Such decisions shall be carried out by the Members of the United Nations directly and through their action in the appropriate international agencies of which they are members.

Article 49

The Members of the United Nations shall join in affording mutual assistance in carrying out the measures decided upon by the Security Council.

Article 50

If preventive or enforcement measures against any state are taken by the Security Council, any other state, whether a Member of the United Nations or not, which finds itself confronted with special economic prob­lems arising from the carrying out of those measures shall have the right to consult the Security Council with regard to a solution of those problems.

Article 51

Nothing in the present Charter shall im­pair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack oc­curs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken meas­ures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Mem­bers in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore in­ternational peace and security.

CHAPTER VIII

REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

Article 52

1. Nothing in the present Charter pre­cludes the existence of regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with such matters re­lating to the maintenance of international peace and security as are appropriate for re­gional action, provided that such arrange­ments or agencies and their activities are con­sistent with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations.

2. The Members of the United Nations entering into such arrangements or consti­tuting such agencies shall make every effort to achieve pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional arrangements or by such regional agencies before referring them to the Security Council.

3. The Security Council shall encourage the development of pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional arrange­ments or by such regional agencies either on the initiative of the states concerned or by reference from the Security Council.

4. This Article in no way impairs the ap­plication of Articles 34 and 35.

Article 53

1. The Security Council shall, where ap­propriate, utilize such regional arrangements or agencies for enforcement action under its authority. But no enforcement action shall be taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without the authorization of the Security Council, with the exception of measures against any enemy state, as defined in paragraph 2 of this Article, provided for pursuant to Article 107 or in regional arrangements directed against renewal of ag­gressive policy on the part of any such state, until such time as the Organization may, on request of the Governments concerned, be charged with the responsibility for prevent­ing further aggression by such a state.

2. The term enemy state as used in para­graph 1 of this Article applies to any state which during the Second World War has been an enemy of any signatory of the present Charter.

Article 54

The Security Council shall at all times be kept fully informed of activities undertaken or in contemplation under regional arrange­ments or by regional agencies for the maintenance of international peace and security.

CHAPTER IX

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC

AND SOCIAL CO-OPERATION

Article 55

With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peo­ples, the United Nations shall promote:

a. higher standards of living, full em­ployment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development;

b. solutions of international economic, social, health, and related problems; and international cultural and educational co-operation; and

c. universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental free­doms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.

Article 56

All Members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55.

Article 57

1. The various specialized agencies, estab­lished by intergovernmental agreement and having wide international responsibilities, as defined in their basic instruments, in economic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related fields, shall be brought into relationship with the United Nations in ac­cordance with the provisions of Article 63.

2. Such agencies thus brought into rela­tionship with the United Nations are hereinafter referred to as specialized agencies.

Article 58

The Organization shall make recommenda­tions for the co-ordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies.

Article 59

The Organization shall, where appropriate, initiate negotiations among the states con­cerned for the creation of any new special­ized agencies required for the accomplish­ment of the purposes set forth in Article 55.

Article 60

Responsibility for the discharge of the functions of the Organization set forth in this Chapter shall be vested in the General As­sembly and, under the authority of the Gen­eral Assembly, in the Economic and Social Council, which shall have for this purpose the powers set forth in Chapter X.

CHAPTER X

THE ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL COUNCIL

Composition

Article 61

1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of twenty-seven Members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly.

2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, nine members of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each year for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be eligible for immediate re-election.

3. At the first election after the increase in the membership of the Economic and Social Council from eighteen to twenty-seven mem­bers, in addition to the members elected in place of the six members whose term of office expires at the end of that year, nine additional members shall be elected. Of these nine addi­tional members, the term of office of three members so elected shall expire at the end of one year, and of three other members at the end of two years, in accordance with arrangements made by the General Assembly.

4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall have one representative.

Functions and Powers

Article 62

1. The Economic and Social Council may make or initiate studies and reports with respect to international economic, social, cul­tural, educational, health, and related mat­ters and may make recommendations with respect to any such matters to the General Assembly, to the Members of the United Nations, and to the specialized agencies concerned.

2. It may make recommendations for the purpose of promoting respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all.

3. It may prepare draft conventions for submission to the General Assembly, with respect to matters falling within its compe­tence.

4. It may call, in accordance with the rules prescribed by the United Nations, international conferences on matters falling within its competence.

Article 63

1. The Economic and Social Council may enter into agreements with any of the agencies referred to in Article 57, defining the terms on which the agency concerned shall be brought into relationship with the United Nations. Such agreements shall be subject to approval by the General Assembly.

2. It may co-ordinate the activities of the specialized agencies through consultation with and recommendations to such agencies and through recommendations to the General As­sembly and to the Members of the United Nations.

Article 64

1. The Economic and Social Council may take appropriate steps to obtain regular reports from the specialized agencies. It may make arrangements with the Members of the United Nations and with the specialized agencies to obtain reports on the steps taken to give effect to its own recommendations and to recommendations on matters falling within its competence made by the General Assembly.

2. It may communicate its observations on these reports to the General Assembly.

Article 65

The Economic and Social Council may fur-nish information to the Security Council and shall assist the Security Council upon its request.

Article 66

1. The Economic and Social Council shall perform such functions as fall within its com­petence in connexion with the carrying out of the recommendations of the General As­sembly.

2. It may, with the approval of the Gen­eral Assembly, perform services at the request of Members of the United Nations and at the request of specialized agencies.

3. It shall perform such other functions as are specified elsewhere in the present Charter or as may be assigned to it by the General Assembly.

Voting

Article 67

1. Each member of the Economic and So­cial Council shall have one vote.

2. Decisions of the Economic and Social Council shall he made by a majority of the members present and voting.

Procedure

Article 68

The Economic and Social Council shall set up commissions in economic and social fields and for the promotion of human rights, and such other commissions as may be required for the performance of its functions.

Article 69

The Economic and Social Council shall in­vite any Member of the United Nations to participate, without vote, in its deliberations on any matter of particular concern to that Member.

Article 70

The Economic and Social Council may make arrangements for representatives of the specialized agencies to participate, without vote, in its deliberations and in those of the commissions established by it, and for its representatives to participate in the deliberations of the specialized agencies.

Article 71

The Economic and Social Council may make suitable arrangements for consultation with non-governmental organizations which are concerned with matters within its competence. Such arrangements may be made with international organizations and, where appropriate, with national organizations after consultation with the Member of the United Nations concerned.

Article 72

1. The Economic and Social Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its President.

2. The Economic and Social Council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules, which shall include provision for the conven­ing of meetings on the request of a majority of its members.

CHAPTER XI

DECLARATION REGARDING
NON-SELF-GOVERNING
TERRITORIES

Article 73

Members of the United Nations which have or assume responsibilities for the administra­tion of territories whose peoples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are para­mount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well­being of the inhabitants of these territories, and, to this end:

a. to ensure, with due respect for the culture of the peoples concerned, their political, economic, social, and educational advancement, their just treatment, and their protection against abuses;

b. to develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free po­litical institutions, according to the particu­lar circumstances of each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of ad­vancement ;

c. to further international peace and se­curity;

d. to promote constructive measures of development, to encourage research, and to co-operate with one another and, when and where appropriate, with specialized international bodies with a view to the practical achievement of the social, eco­nomic, and scientific purposes set forth in this, Article ; and

e. to transmit regularly to the Secretary-General for information purposes, subject to such limitation as security and constitu­tional considerations may require, statis­tical and other information of a technical nature relating to economic, social, and educational conditions in the territories for which they are respectively responsible other than those territories to which Chapters XII and XIII apply.

Article 74

Members of the United Nations also agree that their policy in respect of the territories to which this Chapter applies, no less than in respect of their metropolitan areas, must be based on the general principle of good-neighbourliness, due account being taken of the interests and well-being of the rest of the world, in social, economic, and commer­cial matters.

CHAPTER XII

INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP
SYSTEM

Article 75

The United Nations shall establish under its authority an international trusteeship sys­tem for the administration and supervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent individual agreements. These territories are hereinafter referred to as trust territories.

Article 76

The basic objectives of the trusteeship sys­tem, in accordance with the Purposes of the United Nations laid down in Article I of the present Charter, shall be:

a. to further international peace and se­curity;

b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be ap­propriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples con­cerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement;

c. to encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all with­out distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the interdependence of the peoples of the world; and

d. to ensure equal treatment in social, economic and, commercial matters for all Members of the United Nations and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the latter in the administration of justice, with­out prejudice to the attainment of the fore­going objectives and subject to the provi­sions of Article 80.

Article 77

1. The trusteeship system shall apply to such territories in the following categories as may be placed thereunder by means of trusteeship agreements:

a. territories now held under mandate;

b. territories which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the Sec­ond World War; and

c. territories voluntarily placed under the system by states responsible for their administration.

2. It will be a matter for subsequent agree­ment as to which territories in the foregoing categories will be brought under the trustee­ship system and upon what terms.

Article 78

The trusteeship system shall not apply to territories which have become Members of the United Nations, relationship among which shall be based on respect for the prin­ciple of sovereign equality.

Article 79

The terms of trusteeship for each territory to be placed under the trusteeship system, including any alteration or amendment, shall be agreed upon by the states directly concerned, including the mandatory power in the case of territories held under mandate by a Member of the United Nations, and shall be approved as provided for in Articles 83 and 85.

Article 80

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 and conclu­sion of agreements for placing mandated and other territories under the trusteeship system as provided for in Article 77.

Article 81

The trusteeship agreement shall in each case include the terms under which the trust territory will be administered and designate the authority which will exercise the administration of the trust territory. Such authority, hereinafter called the administering author­ity, may be one or more states or the Or­ganization itself.

Article 82

There may be designated, in any trustee­ship agreement, a strategic area or areas which may include part or all of the trust territory to which the agreement applies, without prejudice to any special agreement or agreements made under Article 43.

Article 83

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.

Article 84

It shall be the duty of the administering authority to ensure that the trust territory shall play its part in the maintenance of in­ternational peace and security. To this end the administering authority may make use of volunteer forces, facilities, and assistance from the trust territory in carrying out the obligations towards the Security Council un­dertaken in this regard by the administering authority, as well as for local defence and the maintenance of law and order within the trust territory.

Article 85

1. The functions of the United Nations with regard to trusteeship agreements for all areas not designated as strategic, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the General As­sembly.

2. The Trusteeship Council, operating un­der the authority of the General Assembly, shall assist the General Assembly in carrying out these functions.

CHAPTER XIII

THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL

Composition

Article 86

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.

Functions and Powers

Article 87

The General Assembly and, under its au­thority, the Trusteeship Council, in carrying out their functions, may:

a. consider reports submitted by the administering authority;

b. accept petitions and examine them in consultation with the administering au­thority;

c. provide for periodic visits to the re­spective trust territories at times agreed upon with the administering authority; and

d. take these and other actions in con­formity with the terms of the trusteeship agreements.

Article 88

The Trusteeship Council shall formulate a questionnaire on the political, economic, so­cial, and educational advancement of the in­habitants of each trust territory, and the administering authority for each trust territory within the competence of the General Assem­bly shall make an annual report to the General Assembly upon the basis of such questionnaire.

Voting

Article 89

1. Each member of the Trusteeship Coun­cil shall have one vote.

2. Decisions of the Trusteeship Council shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting.

Procedure

Article 90

1. The Trusteeship Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its President.

2. The Trusteeship Council shall meet as required in accordance with its rules, which shall include provision for the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its members.

Article 91

The Trusteeship Council shall, when ap­propriate, avail itself of the assistance of the Economic and Social Council and of the spe­cialized agencies in regard to matters with which they are respectively concerned.

CHAPTER XIV

THE INTERNATIONAL COURT
OF JUSTICE

Article 92

The International Court of Justice shall be the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It shall function in accordance with the annexed Statute, which is based upon the Statute of the Permanent Court of Interna­tional Justice and forms an integral part of the present Charter.

Article 93

1. All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice.

2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may become a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice on conditions to be determined in each case by the General Assembly upon the recom­mendation of the Security Council.

Article 94

1. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party.

2. If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgment rendered by the Court, the other party may have recourse to the Security Council, which may, if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judg­ment.

Article 95

Nothing in the present Charter shall pre­vent Members of the United Nations from entrusting the solution of their differences to other tribunals by virtue of agreements already in existence or which may be concluded in the future.

Article 96

1. The General Assembly or the Security Council may request the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on any legal question.

2. Other organs of the United Nations and specialized agencies, which may at any time be so authorized by the General Assembly, may also request advisory opinions of the Court on legal questions arising within the scope of their activities.

CHAPTER XV

THE SECRETARIAT

Article 97

The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary-General shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Coun­cil. He shall be the chief administrative officer of the Organization.

Article 98

The Secretary-General shall act in that capacity in all meetings of the General Assembly, of the Security Council, of the Economic and Social Council, and of the Trusteeship Council, and shall perform such other functions as are entrusted to him by these organs. The Secretary-General shall make an annual report to the General Assembly on the work of the Organization.

Article 99

The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the main­tenance of international peace and security.

Article 100

1. In the performance of their duties the Secretary-General and the staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any government or from any other authority external to the Organization. They shall refrain from any action which might reflect on their position as international officials responsible only to the Organization.

2. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to respect the exclusively international character of the responsibilities of the Secretary-General and the staff and not to seek to influence them in the discharge of their responsibilities.

Article 101

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 importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible.

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 1 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 fulfilment 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 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 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, 30 October 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 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 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.

STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL

COURT OF JUSTICE

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Article 1

THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE es­tablished by the Charter of the United Na­tions as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of the present Statute.

CHAPTER 1

ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT

Article 2

The Court shall be composed of a body of independent judges, elected regardless of their nationality from among persons of high moral character, who possess the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or are jurisconsults of recognized competence in international law.

Article 3

1. The Court shall consist of fifteen mem­bers, no two of whom may be nationals of the same state.

2. A person who for the purposes of mem­bership in the Court could be regarded as a national of more than one state shall be deemed to be a national of the one in which he ordinarily exercises civil and political rights.

Article 4

1. The members of the Court shall be elected by the General Assembly and by the Security Council from a list of persons nomi­nated by the national groups in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in accordance with the following provisions.

2. In the case of Members of the United Nations not represented in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, candidates shall be nominated by national groups appointed for this purpose by their governments under the same conditions as those prescribed for mem­bers of the Permanent Court of Arbitration by Article 44 of the Convention of The. Hague of 1907 for the pacific settlement of international disputes.

3. The conditions under which a state which is a party to the present Statute but is not a Member of the United Nations may participate in electing the members of the Court shall, in the absence of a special agree­ ment, be laid down by the General Assembly
upon recommendation of the Security Coun­cil.

Article 5

1. At least three months before the date of the election, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall address a written request to the members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration belonging to the states which are parties to the present Statute, and to the members of the national groups appointed under Article 4, paragraph 2, inviting them to undertake, within a given time, by national groups, the nomination of persons in a position to accept the duties of a member of the Court.

2. No group may nominate more than four persons, not more than two of whom shall be of their own nationality. In no case may the number of candidates nominated by a group be more than double the number of seats to be filled.

Article 6

Before making these nominations, each na­tional group is recommended to consult its highest court of justice, its legal faculties and schools of law, and its national academies and national sections of international acad­emies devoted to the study of law.

Article 7

1. The Secretary-General shall prepare a list in alphabetical order of all the persons thus nominated. Save as provided in Article 12, paragraph 2, these shall be the only persons eligible.

2. The Secretary-General shall submit this list to the General Assembly and to the Security Council.

Article 8

The General Assembly and the Security Council shall proceed independently of one another to elect the members of the Court.

Article 9

At every election, the electors shall bear in mind not only that the persons to be elected should individually possess the qualifications required, but also that in the body as a whole the representation of the main forms of civil­ization and of the principal legal systems of the world should be assured.

Article 10

1. Those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly and in the Security Council shall be con­sidered as elected.

2. Any vote of the Security Council, whether for the election of judges or for the appointment of members of the conference envisaged in Article 12, shall be taken without any distinction between permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council.

3. In the event of more than one national of the same state obtaining an absolute majority of the votes both of the General As­sembly and of the Security Council, the eldest of these only shall be considered as elected.

Article 11

If, after the first meeting held for the pur­pose of the election, one or more seats re­main to be filled, a second and, if necessary, a third meeting shall take place.

Article 12

1. If, after the third meeting, one or more seats still remain unfilled, a joint conference consisting of six members, three appointed by the General Assembly and three by the Security Council, may be formed at any time at the request of either the General Assembly or the Security Council, for the purpose of choosing by the vote of an absolute major­ity one name for each seat still vacant, to submit to the General Assembly and the Se­curity Council for their respective acceptance.

2. If the joint conference is unanimously agreed upon any person who fulfils the required conditions, he may be included in its list, even though he was not included in the list of nominations referred to in Article 7.

3. If the joint conference is satisfied that it will not be successful in procuring an election, those members of the Court who have already been elected shall, within a period to be fixed by the Security Council, proceed to fill the vacant seats by selection from among those candidates who have obtained votes either in the General Assembly or in the Security Council.

4. In the event of an equality of votes among the judges, the eldest judge shall have a casting vote.

Article 13

1. The members of the Court shall be elected for nine years and may be re-elected; provided, however, that of the judges elected at the first election, the terms of five judges shall expire at the end of three years and the terms of five more judges shall expire at tile end of six years.

2. The judges whose terms are to expire at the end of the above-mentioned initial periods of three and six years shall be chosen by lot to be drawn by the Secretary-General immediately after the first election has been completed.

3. The members of the Court shall con­tinue to discharge their duties until their places have been filled. Though replaced, they shall finish any cases which they may have begun.

4. In the case of the resignation of a mem­ber of the Court, the resignation shall be addressed to the President of the Court for transmission to the Secretary-General. This last notification makes the place vacant.

Article 14

Vacancies shall be filled by the same method as that laid down for the first elec­tion, subject to the following provision: the Secretary-General shall, within one month of the occurrence of the vacancy, proceed to issue the invitations provided for in Article 5, and the date of the election shall be fixed by the Security Council.

Article 15

A member of the Court elected to replace a member whose term of office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder of his predecessor's term.

Article 16

1. No member of the Court may exercise any political or administrative function, or engage in any other occupation of a profes­sional nature.

2. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by, the decision of the Court.

Article 17

1. No member of the Court may act as agent, counsel, or advocate in any case.

2. No member may participate in the de­cision of any case in which he has previously taken part as agent, counsel, or advocate for one of the parties, or as a member of a national or international court, or of a com­mission of enquiry, or in any other capacity.

3. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

Article 18

1. No member of the Court can be dis­missed unless, in the unanimous opinion of the other members, he has ceased to fulfil the required conditions.

2. Formal notification thereof shall be made to the Secretary-General by the Regis­trar.

3. This notification makes the place vacant.

Article 19

The members of the Court, when engaged on the business of the Court, shall enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities.

Article 20

Every member of the Court shall, before taking up his duties, make a solemn declaration in open court that he will exercise his powers impartially and conscientiously.

Article 21

1. The Court shall elect its President and Vice-President for three years; they may be re-elected.

2. The Court shall appoint its Registrar and may provide for the appointment of such other officers as may be necessary.

Article 22

1. The seat of the Court shall be estab­lished at The Hague. This, however, shall not prevent the Court from sitting and ex­ercising its functions elsewhere whenever the Court considers it desirable.

2. The President and the Registrar shall reside at the seat of the Court.

Article 23

1. The Court shall remain permanently in session, except during the judicial vacations, the dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court.

2. Members of the Court are entitled to periodic leave, the dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court, having in mild the distance between The Hague and the home of each judge.

3. Members of the Court shall be bound, unless they are on leave or prevented from attending by illness or other serious reasons duly explained to the President, to hold them­selves permanently at the disposal of the Court.

Article 24

1. If, for some special reason, a member of the Court considers that he should not take part in the decision of a particular case, he shall so inform the President.

2. If the President considers that for some special reason one of the members of the Court should not sit in a particular case, he shall give him notice accordingly.

3. If in any such case the member of the Court and the President disagree, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

Article 25

1. The full Court shall sit except when it is expressly provided otherwise in the present Statute.

2. Subject to the condition that the num­ber of judges available to constitute the Court is not thereby reduced below eleven, The Rules of the Court may provide for allowing one or more judges, according to circum­stances and in rotation, to be dispensed from sitting.

3. A quorum of nine judges shall suffice to constitute the Court.

Article 26

1. The Court may from time to time form one or more chambers, composed of three or more judges as the Court may determine, for dealing with particular categories of cases; for example, labour cases and cases relating to transit and communications.

2. The Court may at any time form a chamber for dealing with a particular case. The number of judges to constitute such a chamber shall be determined by the Court with the approval of the parties.

3. Cases shall he heard and determined by the chambers provided for in this Article if the parties so request.

Article 27

A judgment given by any of the chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 shall be considered as rendered by the Court.

Article 28

The chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 may, with the consent of the parties, sit and exercise their functions elsewhere than at The Hague.

Article 29

With a view to the speedy dispatch of business, the Court shall form annually a chamber composed of rise judges which, at the request of the parties, may hear and determine cases by summary procedure. In addition, two judges shall be selected for the purpose of replacing judges who find it im­possible to sit.

Article 30

1. The Court shall frame rules for carry­ing out its functions. In particular, it shall lay down rules of procedure.

2. The Rules of the Court may provide for assessors to sit with the Court or with any of its chambers, without the right to vote.

Article 31

1. Judges of the nationality of each of the parties shall retain their right to sit in the case before the Court.

2. If the Court includes upon the Bench a judge of the nationality of one of the parties, any other party may choose a person to sit as judge. Such person shall be chosen prefer­ably from among those persons who have been nominated as candidates as provided in Articles 4 and 5.

3. If the Court includes upon the Bench no judge of the nationality of the parties, each of these parties may proceed to choose a judge as provided in paragraph 2 of this Article.

4. The provisions of this Article shall ap­ply to the case of Articles 26 and 29. In such cases, the President shall request one or, if necessary, two of the members of the Court forming the chamber to give place to the members of the Court of the nationality of the parties concerned, and failing such, or if they are unable to be present, to the judges specially chosen by the parties.

5. Should there be several parties in the same interest, they shall, for the purpose of the preceding provisions, be reckoned as one party only. Any doubt upon this point shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

6. Judges chosen as laid down in para­graphs 2, 3, and 4 of this Article shall fulfil the conditions required by Articles 2, 17 (paragraph 2), 20, and 24 of the present Statute. They shall take part in the decision on terms of complete equality with their col­leagues.

Article 32

1. Each member of the Court shall receive an annual salary.

2. The President shall receive a special an­nual allowance.

3. The Vice-President shall receive a spe­cial allowance for every day on which he acts as President.

4. The judges chosen under Article 31, other than members of the Court, shall re­ceive compensation for each day on which they exercise their functions.

5. These salaries, allowances, and compen­sation shall be fixed by the General Assembly. They may not be decreased during the term of office.

6. The salary of the Registrar shall be fixed by the General Assembly on the pro­posal of the Court.

7. Regulations made by the General As­sembly shall fix the conditions under which retirement pensions may be given to mem­bers of the Court and to the Registrar, and the conditions under which members of the Court and the Registrar shall have their travelling expenses refunded.

8. The above salaries, allowances, and compensation shall be free of all taxation.

Article 33

The expenses of the Court shall be borne by the United Nations in such a manner as shall be decided by the General Assembly.

CHAPTER II

COMPETENCE OF THE COURT

Article 34

1. Only states may be parties in cases be­fore the Court.

2. The Court, subject to and in conform­ity with its Rules, may request of public international organizations information rele­vant to cases before it, and shall receive such information presented by such organizations on their own initiative.

3. Whenever the construction of the consti­tuent instrument of a public international or­ganization or of an international convention adopted thereunder is in question in a case before the Court, the Registrar shall so no­tify the public international organization con­cerned and shall communicate to it copies of all the written proceedings.

Article 35

1. The Court shall be open to the states parties to the present Statute.

2. The conditions under which the Court shall be open to other states shall, subject to the special provisions contained in treaties in force, be laid down by the Security Coun­cil, but in no case shall such conditions place the parties in a position of inequality before the Court.

3. When a state which is not a Member of the United Nations is a party to a case, the Court shall fix the amount which that party is to contribute towards the expenses of the Court. This provision shall not apply if such state is bearing a share of the expenses of the Court.

Article 36

1. The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force.

2. The states parties to the present Statute may at any time declare that they recognize as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any other state accepting the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes concerning:

a. the interpretation of a treaty;

b. any question of international law;

c. the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation;

d. the nature or extent of the repara­tion to be made for the breach of an in­ternational obligation.

3. The declarations referred on above may be made unconditionally or on condition of reciprocity on the part of several or certain states, or for a certain time.

4. Such declarations shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof to the parties to the Statute and to the Registrar of the Court.

5. Declarations made under Article 36 of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and which are still in force shall be deemed, as between the parties to the present Statute, to be acceptances of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice for the period which they still have to run and in accordance with their terms.

6. In the event of a dispute as to whether the Court has jurisdiction, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

Article 37

Whenever a treaty or convention in force provides for reference of a matter to a tribunal to have been instituted by the League of Nations, or to the Permanent Court of International Justice, the matter shall, as be­tween the parties to the present Statute, be referred to the International Court of Jus­tice.

Article 38

1. The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply:

a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states;

b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law;

c. the general principles of law recog­nized by civilized nations;

d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law.

2. This provision shall not prejudice the power of the Court to decide a case ex aequo et bono, if the parties agree thereto.

CHAPTER III

PROCEDURE

Article 39

1. The official languages of the Court shall be French and English. If the parties agree that the case shall he conducted in French, the judgment shall be delivered in French. If the parties agree that the case shall be conducted in English, the judgment shall be delivered in English.

2. In the absence of an agreement as to which language shall be employed, each party may, in the pleadings, use the language which it prefers; the decision of the Court shall be given in French and English. In this case the Court shall at the same time determine which of the two texts shall he considered as authoritative.

3. The Court shall, at the request of any party, authorize a language other than French or English to be used by that party.

Article 40

1. Cases are brought before the Court, as the case may be, either by the notification of the special agreement or by a written appli­cation addressed to the Registrar. In either case the subject of the dispute and the par­ties shall be indicated.

2. The Registrar shall forthwith communi­cate the application to all concerned.

3. He shall also notify the Members of the United Nations through the Secretary-General, and also any other states entitled to appear before the Court.

Article 41

1. The Court shall have the power to in­dicate, if it considers that circumstances so require, any provisional measures which ought to be taken to preserve the respective rights of either party.

2. Pending the final decision, notice of the measures suggested shall forthwith be given to the parties and to the Security Council.

Article 42

1. The parties shall be represented by agents.

2. They may have the assistance of coun­sel or advocates before the Court.

3. The agents, counsel, and advocates of parties before the Court shall enjoy the privileges and immunities necessary to the independent exercise of their duties.

Article 43

1. The procedure shall consist of two parts: written and oral.

2. The written proceedings shall consist of the communication to the Court and to the parties of memorials, counter-memorials and, if necessary, replies; also all papers and documents in support.

3. These communications shall be made through the Registrar, in the order and within the time fixed by the Court.

4. A certified copy of every document pro­duced by one party shall be communicated to the other party.

5. The oral proceedings shall consist of the hearing by the Court of witnesses, ex­perts, agents, counsel, and advocates.

Article 44

1. For the service of all notices upon per­sons other than the agents, counsel, and advocates, the Court shall apply direct to the government of the state upon whose territory the notice has to be served.

2. The same provision shall apply when­ever steps are to be taken to procure evidence on the spot.

Article 45

The hearing shall be under the control of the President or, if he is unable to preside, of the Vice-President; if neither is able to preside, the senior judge present shall pre­side.

Article 46

The hearing in Court shall be public, unless the Court shall decide otherwise, or unless the parties demand that the public be not admitted.

Article 47

1. Minutes shall be made at each hearing and signed by the Registrar and the President.

2. These minutes alone shall be authentic.

Article 48

The Court shall make orders for the con­duct of the case, shall decide the form and time in which each party must conclude its arguments, and make all arrangements connected with the taking of evidence.

Article 49

The Court may, even before the hearing begins, call upon the agents to produce any document or to supply any explanations. Formal note shall be taken of any refusal.

Article 50

The Court may, at any time, entrust any in­dividual, body, bureau, commission, or other organization that it may select, with the task of carrying out an enquiry or giving an expert opinion.

Article 51

During the hearing any relevant questions are to be put to the witnesses and experts under the conditions laid down by the Court in the rules of procedure referred to in Article 30.

Article 52

After the Court has received the proofs and evidence within the time specified for the purpose, it may refuse to accept any further oral or written evidence that one party may desire to present unless the other side con­sents.

Article 53

1. Whenever one of the parties does not appear before the Court, or fails to defend its case, the other party may call upon the Court to decide in favour of its claim.

2. The Court must, before doing so, satisfy itself, not only that it has jurisdiction in accordance with Articles 36 and 37, but also that the claim is well founded in fact and law.

Article 54

1. When, subject to the control of the Court, the agents, counsel, and advocates have completed their presentation of the case, the President shall declare the hearing closed.

2. The Court shall withdraw to consider the judgment.

3. The deliberations of the Court shall take place in private and remain secret.

Article 55

1. All questions shall be decided by a ma­jority of the judges present.

2. In the event of an equality of votes, the President or the judge who acts in his place shall have a casting vote.

Article 56

1. The judgment shall state the .reasons on which it is based.

2. It shall contain the names of the judges who have taken part in the decision.

Article 57

If the judgment does not represent in whole or in part the unanimous opinion of the judges, any judge shall be entitled to deliver a separate opinion.

Article 58

The judgment shall be signed by the Presi­dent and by the Registrar. It shall be read in open court, due notice having been given to the agents.

Article 59

The decision of the Court has no binding force except between the parties and in respect of that particular case.

Article 60

The judgment is final and without appeal. In the event of dispute as to the meaning or scope of the judgment, the Court shall con­strue it upon the request of any party.

Article 61

1. An application for revision of a judg­ment may be made only when it is based upon the discovery of some fact of such a nature as to be a decisive factor, which fact was, when the judgment was given, unknown to the Court and also to the party claiming revision, always provided that such ignorance was not due to negligence.

2. The proceedings for revision shall be opened by a judgment of the Court expressly recording the existence of the new fact, re­cognizing that it has such a character as to lay the case open to revision, and declaring the application admissible on this ground.

3. The Court may require previous com­pliance with the terms of the judgment before it admits proceedings in revision.

4. The application for revision must he made at latest within six months of the discovery of the new fact.

5. No application for revision may be made after the lapse of ten years from the date of the judgment.

Article 62

1. Should a state consider that it has an interest of a legal nature which may, he affected by the decision in the case, it may sub­mit a request to the Court to he permitted to intervene.

2. It shall be for the Court to decide upon this request.

Article, 63

1. Whenever the construction of a conven­tion to which states other than those concerned in the case are parties is in question, the Registrar shall notify all such states forth­with.

2. Every state so notified has the right to intervene in the proceedings; but if it uses this right, the construction given by the judg­ment will be equally binding upon it.

Article 64

Unless otherwise decided by the Court, each party shall bear its own costs.

CHAPTER IV

ADVISORY OPINIONS

Article 65

1. The Court may give an advisory opin­ion on any legal question at the request of whatever body may he authorized by or in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to make such a request.

2. Questions upon which the advisory opin­ion of the Court is asked shall be laid before the Court by means of a written request con­taining an exact statement of the question upon which an opinion is required, and ac‘ companied by all documents likely to throw light upon the question.

Article 66

1. The Registrar shall forthwith give no­tice of the request for an advisory opinion to all states entitled to appear before the Court.

2. The Registrar shall also, by means of a special and direct communication, notify any state entitled to appear before the Court or international organization considered by the Court, or, should it not be sitting, by the President, as likely to be able to furnish in­formation on the question, that the Court will be prepared to receive, within a time limit to be fixed by the President, written statements, or to hear, at a public sitting to be held for the purpose, oral statements relating to the question.

3. Should any such state entitled to ap­pear before the Court have failed to receive the special communication referred to in para­graph 2 of this Article, such state may express a desire to submit a written statement or to be heard; and the Court will decide.

4. States and organizations having pre­sented written or oral statements or both shall be permitted to comment on the statements made by other states or organizations in the form, to the extent, and within the time limits which the Court, or, should it not be sitting, the President, shall decide in each particular case. Accordingly, the Registrar shall in due time communicate any such written state­ments to states and organizations having sub­mitted similar statements.

Article 67

The Court shall deliver its advisory opin­ions in open court, notice having been given to the Secretary-General and to the rep­resentatives of Members of the United Na­tions, of other states and of international organizations immediately concerned.

Article 68

In the exercise of its advisory functions the Court shall further be guided by the provisions of the present Statute which apply in contentious cases to the extent to which it recognizes them to be applicable.