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= or for the purpose Of maintaining
, inter American peace and security.
> Article VI. If the inviolability or
the integrity of the territory or the
sovereignty or political independ-
, ence of any American state should
, be affected by an aggression which
? is not an armed attack or by an
, intercontinental or extracontinen-
{ tai conflict. or by any other fact or
, situation that might endanger the
peace of America, the organ of con-
sultation shall meet Immediately in
order to agree on the measures
which must be taken in case of
aggression to assist the victim of
the aggression or, in any case, the
measures which should be taken for
the common defense and for the
maintenance of the peace and Sc
curity of the continent.
/ Suspension of HostiIities.
Article VII. In the case of con-
f1ict between two or more American
states. without prejudice to the right
of self-defense in conformity with
Article 81 of the Charter of the
United Nations, the high contracting
parties, meeting in consultation. shall
call upon the contending states to
suspend hostilities and restore mat
ters to the status quo ante bellum,
and shall take in addition all other
necessary measures to reestablish or
maintain inter- American peace and
security and for the solution of the
conflict by peaceful means. The re-
lection Of the pacifying action will
be considered in the determination
of the aggressor and In the applica-
| tion of the measures which the con-
sultative meeting may agree upon.
Article VIII. For the purposes of
this treaty, the measures on which
the organ of consultation may agree
will comprise one or more of the
following: recall of chiefs of diplo-
matte missions, breaking of diplo-
matte relations, breaking of consular
relations, complete or partial inter
ruption Of economic relations or of
rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic,
telephone and radio telephone or
radio telegraphic communications,
and the use of armed force.
Article TX. In addition to other
acts which the organ of consulta-
tion may characterize as aggression,
the following shall be considered as
such:
A.-Unprovoked armed attack by
a state against the territory, the
people or the land, sea or air forces
of another state;
B.-Invasion by the armed forces
of state of the territory of an
American state through the trespass-
ing OF boundaries demarcated in ac-
cordance with treaty. judicial de-
cislon or abitral award, or in the
absence of frontiers thus demarcated,
an invasion affecting a region which
is under the effective jurisdiction of
another state.
Article x. None of the provisions
of this treaty shall be construed as
impairing the rights and obligations
of the high contracting parties
under the Charter of the United
Nations.
Article XII. The organ of con-
sultation referred to in this treaty
shall be until different decision
is taken the meeting of the min
listers of foreign affairs of the
signatory states which have ratified
the treaty
Union Board May Act.
Article XII. The governing board
Of the Pan American Union may
act Professionally as an organ of /
consultation until the meeting of /
the organ of consultation referred
to in the preceding article takes
place.
Article XIII. The consultations
shall be initiated on the request ad-
dressed to the governing board of
the Pan American Union by any of
the signatory states which has rati-
fed the treaty.
Article XIV. In the voting re-
ferred to in this treaty only the
representatives of the signatory
states which have ratified the treaty
may take part.
Article XIV. The governing board
of the Pan American Union shall
act in all matters concerning this
treaty as an organ of liaison among
the sigratory states which have
ratified this treaty and between
these states and the United Nations. |
Article XVI. The decisions of the
governing board of the Pan Ameri-
can Union referred to in Articles
XIII and XIV above shall be taken
by an absolute majority of the
members entitled to vote.
Article XVII. The organ Of con-
sultation shall take its decisions by
vote of two-thirds of the sigma
tory states which have ratified the
treaty.
Article XVIII. In the case of a
situation or dispute between Ameri-
can states the parties directly in
terested shall be excluded from the
voting referred to in the two pre-
ceding articles.
Article XIX. To constitute quorum
in all the meeting referred to in the
previous articles it shall be neces-
sary that the number of states rep
resented shall be at least equal to
the number of votes necessary for
the adpotion of the decision.
Article xxx. Decisions which re-
quire the application of the meas
ures specified in Article VIII shall
be binding upon all the signatory
states which have ratified this treaty
except that no state shall be re-
quired to use armed force without
its consent.
Article XXI. The measures agreed
upon by the organ of consultation
shall be executed through the pro-
cedures and agencies now existing or
those which may in future be estab-
lished.
Article xxi. This treaty shall
enter into effect between the states
which ratify it as soon as the ratifi-
cations of two-thirds of the sigma
tory states have been deposited.
Treaty Open for Signature.
Article XIII. This treaty is open
for signature by the American states
at the city of Rio de Janeiro and