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The Search for World Peace |
The United Nations Conference
on International OrganizationDoc. 2 (ENGLISH)
G/14 (k)
May 5, 1945GENERAL Proposed Amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals Submited by the Philippine Delegation
(NOTE — For purposes of clarity and convenience, all insertions in and additions to the text are underlined while words and line proposed for deletion are crossed out. All page and line numbers refer to those of the printed Text of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals, Document 1, G/1.)
PAGE 1. Chapter I. Purposes
2. To develop friendly relations and the spirit of brotherhood and racial equality among nations and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
II PAGE 1. Chapter I. Purposes
3. To achieve international cooperation in the solution of international economic, cultural, social and other humanitarian problems; and
III PAGE 2 Chapter II. Principles
In pursuit of the purposes mentioned in Chapter I the Organization and its members should act in accordance with the principles declared in the Atlantic Charter and with the following principles:
IV PAGE 2. Chapter II. Principles
1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving and law-abiding states nations.
PAGE 3. Chapter III. Membership.
1. Membership of the organization should be open to all peace-loving states.
The members of the Organization should be:
1. The original signatories to this Charter;
2. Any other peace-loving and law-abiding nation which may hereafter be admitted in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.
VI PAGE 3. Chapter V. The General Assembly
SECTION A. COMPOSITION. All members of the Organization should be members of the General Assembly and each should have a number of representatives to be specified in one representative therein.
the Charter.
VII PAGE 4. Chapter V. The General Assembly, SECTION B. FUNCTIONS AND POWERS. 1.
Assembly either before or after discussion. The General Assembly should not on its own initiative make recommendations on any matter relating to the maintenance of international peace and security which is being dealt with by the Security Council.
VIII PAGE 6. Chapter V. The General Assembly, SECTION B. FUNCTIONS AND POWERS.
8. The General Assembly should receive and consider annual and special reports from the Security Council and reports from other bodies of the Organization.
9. The General Assembly should be vested with the legislative authority to enact rules of international law which should become effective and binding upon the members of the Organization after such rules have been approved by a majority vote of the Security Council. Should the Security Council fail to act on any of such rules within a period of thirty (30) days after submission thereof to the Security Council, the same should become effective and binding as if approved by the Security Council. In the exercise of this legislative authority the General Assembly may codify the existing rules of international law with such changes as the Assembly may deem proper.
IX PAGE 7. Chapter VI. The Security Council, SECTION A. COMPOSITION
SECTION A. COMPOSITION. The Security Council should consist of one representative of each of eleven members of the Organization. Representatives of the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Republic of China, and, in due course, France, should have permanent seats. The General Assembly should elect six states to fill the non permanent seats. These six elect the six representatives to fill the non-permanent seats on the basis of geographical regions, each region to be entitled to one representative. These geographical regions should be: (1) North and Central America (2) South America, (3) Europe, (4) Africa, (5) Western Asia, and (6) Western Pacific Community. The General Assembly should determine the nations that should be included in each geographical region. These six states representatives should be elected for a term of two years, three retiring each year. They should not be immediately eligible for reelection. In the first election of the non-permanent members three should be chosen by the General Assembly for one-year terms and three for two-year terms.
X PAGE 9. Chapter VI. The Security Council, SECTION C. VOTING:
3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters should be made by an affirmative vote of seven members including the councurring votes of the permanent members;
3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters should be made by an affirmative vote of a majority of the permanent members and a majority of the non-permanent members, voting separately;
provided that, in decisions under Chapter VIII, Section A, and under the second sentence of Paragraph I of Chapter VIII, Section C, a party to a dispute should abstain from voting.XI PAGE 9. Chapter VI. The Security Council, SECTION C. VOTING. 3.
voting. In all decisions involving the use of armed forces to maintain peace, an affirmative vote of four-fifths (4/5) of the permanent members and three-fourths (3/4) of the non-permanent members of the Security Council should be required.
XII PAGE 10. Chapter VII. An International Court of Justice
2. The court should be constituted and should function in accordance with a statute which should be annexed to an be a part of the Charter of the Organization -; provided however, that the court should have compulsory jurisdiction.
XIII PAGE 14. Chapter VII. Arrangements for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security Including Prevention and Suppression of Aggression, SECTION B. DETERMINATION OF THREATS TO THE PEACE OR ACTS OF AGGRESSION AND ACTION WITH RESPECT THERETO 2.
decide upon the measures to be taken to maintain or restore peace and security. Any nation should be considered as threatening the peace or as an aggressor, if it should be the first party to commit any of the following acts: (1) To declare war against another nation; (2) To invade or attack, with or without declaration of war, the territory, public vessel, or public aircraft of another nation; (3) To subject another nation to a naval, land or air blockade; and (4) To interfere with the internal affairs of another nation by supplying arms, ammunition, money or other forms of aid to any armed band, faction or group, or by establishing agencies in that nation to conduct propaganda subversive of the institutions of that nation.
XIV PAGE 16. Chapter VIII. Arrangements for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security Including Prevention and Suppression of Aggression. SECTION B. DETERMINATION OF THREATS TO THE PEACE OR ACTS OF AGGRESSION AND ACTION WITH RESPECT THERETO. 9.
forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council. The Committee should be composed of the Chiefs of Staff of all the permanent members of the Security Council or their repre-
XV PAGE 16. Chapter VIII. Arrangements for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security Including Prevention and Suppression of Aggression. SECTION B. DETERMINATION OF THREATS TO THE PEACE OR ACTS OF AGGRESSION AND ACTION WITH RESPECT THERETO. 9.
sentatives. Any member of the Organization not permanently represented on the Committee should be invited by
XVI PAGE 18. Chapter IX. Arrangements for International Economic and Social Cooperation, SECTION A. PURPOSE AND RELATIONSHIPS.
SECTION A. PURPOSE AND RELATIONSHIPS. 1. With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well-being which are necessary for peaceful and firendly relations among nations, the Organization should facilitate solutions of international economic, cultural, social and other humanitarian problems
XVII PAGE 18. Chapter IX. Arrangements for International Economic and Social Cooperation, SECTION A. PURPOSE AND RELATIONSHIPS. 2.
2. The various specialized economic, cultural, social and other organizations and agencies would have responsibilities in their respective fields as defined in their statutes. Each such or-
XVIII PAGE 19. Chapter IX. Arrangements for International Economic and Social Cooperation, SECTION B. COMPOSITION AND VOTING.
Source: Proposed Amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals Submitted by the Philippine Delegation, The United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, April 25-June 26 1945, Doc. 2, G/14(k), May 5, 1945, pp. 535-539
Editorial Note: This is a true copy of the above-referenced original document. This document is reproduced in Benjamin B. Ferencz's work "Defining International Aggression - The Search for World Peace", Vol. 1, as Document No. 17 (d).
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