Codification Division Publications: Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs Codification Division Publications: Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs

Last update: June 30, 2023

Charter of the United Nations

Chapter I — Purposes and Principles

Article 2(7)

1.–5. [See separate study]

6. [See separate study]

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 VII.

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Repertory of Practice (1945–1954), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 1 (1954–1955), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 2 (1955–1959), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 3 (1959–1966), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 4 (1966–1969), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 5 (1970–1978), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 6 (1979–1984), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 7 (1985–1988), volume 1 View PDF file
  Supplement No 8 (1989–1994), volume 1* View PDF file
  Supplement No 9 (1995–1999), volume 1* View PDF file
  Supplement No 10 (2000–2009), volume 1 View PDF file

* Advance version in English