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Chapter I: Purposes and Principles: Article 1

The document outlines the purposes and principles of the United Nations according to its charter. It aims to maintain international peace and security through collective action, develop friendly relations between nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing nations' actions. It also aims to promote higher living standards, full employment, economic and social progress, solutions to international problems, and universal human rights through international cooperation between members.

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Chapter I: Purposes and Principles: Article 1

The document outlines the purposes and principles of the United Nations according to its charter. It aims to maintain international peace and security through collective action, develop friendly relations between nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing nations' actions. It also aims to promote higher living standards, full employment, economic and social progress, solutions to international problems, and universal human rights through international cooperation between members.

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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.

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 cooperation; 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.

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