UN Charter
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The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. United Nations link
In rather stirring terms, it spells out the reason for the establishment and existence of the United Nations. It is necessarily a document of some length.
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- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "UN_Charter" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Charter, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
