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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.
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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 twothirds
vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any nine
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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.

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