CHAPTER I: PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES
CHAPTER VI: PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

CHAPTER I: PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES

Article 1
Article 2
The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in
accordance with the following Principles.

  1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
  2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership,
    shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present
    Charter.
  3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner
    that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.
  4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force
    against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent
    with the Purposes of the United Nations.
  5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance
    with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which
    the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.
  6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act
    in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international
    peace and security.
  7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene
    in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the
    Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall
    not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.

CHAPTER VI: PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

Article 33

  1. The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of
    international peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation,
    conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other
    peaceful means of their own choice.
  2. The Security Council shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the parties to settle their
    dispute by such means.