Back to United Nations Course home New Charter of the United Nations CHAPTER I PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES Article 1 The Purposes and Role of the United Nations are: 1. To expedite the ratification and implementation of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth and the enacted World Legislation enacted by the Provisional World Parliament and the World Parliament, and to in every humane way build upon the work of the Provisional World Government for the guarantee of universal freedom, justice and human security. 2. Particularly, to assist in the implementation of World Legislative Bill Number One, to outlaw all weapons of mass death and destruction and to help establish, promote and implement the World Disarmament Agency for the purpose of building a genuinely just peace, which is neither the culmination of war nor the pacification of any peoples of Earth. 3. To cooperate with the agencies of the Provisional World Government in a truly friendly manner and to uphold the respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace as described in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth; 4. To achieve global co-operation through both public and private participation in solving world 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, color, caste, nationality, gender, sex, orientation, language, political affiliation, property, religion or social status; as described under Articles XII and XIII of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. 5. To be a centre for harmonious transition from the old haphazard manner of managing Earth's affairs to a new coordinated Provisional World Government for the attainment of these common ends. Article 2 The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles. 1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of the people of the Earth Federation. 2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter, all other World Legislation, and the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. 3. All Members shall settle their disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that world freedom, peace and security, and justice, are not endangered. 4. All Members shall refrain in their relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity and political independence of the Federation of Earth, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the new United Nations and the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. 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 individual or individuals against which the Earth Federation is taking preventive or enforcement action, except through judicial process within the jurisdiction of the Provisional World Court and World Court under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. 6. The Organization shall ensure that people who are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of world freedom, justice, peace and security. 7. The present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which may be found by the World Court of the Federation of Earth to be essentially contrary to the principles and law of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, but only in accordance with the application of enforcement measures as described in Article X, Section D of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. home Back to United Nations Course