Basic Documents on Human Rights
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 18, 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 641
ISBN-13: 9780198256830
First sentence: 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;