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The Security Council

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The Security Council
The Charter places the major re-
sponsibility for the maintenance
and enforcement of international
peace and security with the Security
Council. The Security Council will
not meet merely from time to time.
The Charter provides that it shall
/ function continuously and that Its
members shall always be repre-
sented at the seat of the organiza-
ton.
The Council has the duty of
helping to bring about by peaceful
means the adjustment or settlement
of international disputes. These
include such methods as concilia-
tion, mediation, arbitration, judicial
settlement and resort to regional
agencies as well as any other peace
full means the parties to dispute
may choose. If necessary the Coun-
Gil may itself recommend the terms
of settlement, as well as methods Of
settlement or adjustment.
Should these means fail, 1t Is the
duty of the Security Council to take
whatever measures are necessary,
including diplomatic and economic
| sanctions and the use Of force, to
prevent or suppress threat to the
peace, breach Of the peace, or act
Of aggression.
Members Are Pledged.
All members of the organization
are pledged to accept and carry out
decisions of the security council
made in fulfillment of these duties
They undertake to make available
to the council, on its call, armed
forces, assistance and facilities in
accordance with special agreements
which are to be negotiated as soon
as possible between the security
council and the member nations.
1t is specified that within the limits
of these agreements national air
force contingents should be tmme-
diately available for combined in
ternational enforcement action.
The charter provides that these
military agreements shall be sub
ject to ratification by the signatory
states in accordance with their re-
spective constitutional processes.
There will also be a military staff
committee consisting of the chiefs
of staff of the permanent members
Of the security council or their rep
resentatives to advise and assist
the council In its military require
ments for the maintenance Of inter-
national peace, the use of the forces
at its disposal and in dischargihg
its responsibilities in connection
with the regulation of armaments
Thus the military collaboration of
the great powers, which has been
SO important a factor in assuring
victory, will be continued and de-
veloped for the purpose Of ensuring
peace.
When the military agreements
have been made, the security coun-
Gil will be ready at all times under
these provisions with effective
means at its disposal for prompt
action against aggression, or a
threat of aggression.
Regional Security Provided.
The relationship of regional Sc
curity arrangements to the United
Nations organization is also estab-
lished by the Charter. Because Bit
ter experience has shown that a
breach of the peace anywhere In
the world may sooner or later
threaten the security of all nations
the supremacy of the security coun-
Gil in enforcement measures to pre-
vent aggression is established by the
Charter, except as concerns the en-
emy states of this war.
The Charter contemplatess that
the United Nations organization
may in time assume the response
bility for standing guard over the
enemy states, but this responsibility
is left for the present directly In
the hands of the nations which have
made victory possible in the present
war. They will decide when te
transfer this responsibility to the
organization. The United States is
OF course, one of the nations which
retains this responsibility.
While no regional enforcement
action may be taken without the
consent of the security council-ex-
cept against enemy states = the
Charter encourages the use OF re-
gional arrangements and agencies
in the peaceful adjustment of local
disputes. 1t also provides that
should an armed attack occur
against member state, the in
herent right of individual or COL
lective self-defense may come into
play until the security council has
taken the necessary measures tc
maintain peace.
These provisions make possible the
further development and strength
ening of the inter-American system
and its integration with the world
system in such way that the Act
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