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Amendments to the Charter of the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Amendments to Articles 23, 27, and 61 of the Charter of the United Nations, adopted by the General Assembly on December 17, 1963, came into force on August 31, 1965. The amendment to Article 23 enlarges the membership of the Security Council from eleven to fifteen. The amended Article 27 provides that decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters be made by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven) and on all other matters by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven), including the concurring votes of the five permanent members of the Security Council (China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States). The amendment to Article 61 enlarges the membership of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) from eighteen to 27.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , Summer 1966 , pp. 430 - 431
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1966

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1 General Assembly Resolution 1991 (XVIII), December 17, 1963. For a summary of the General Assembly's discussion and adoption of this resolution see International Organization, Spring 1964 (Vol. 18, No. 2), pp. 323–330Google Scholar.

2 For the current membership of the Security Council and ECOSOC see International Organization, Spring 1966 (Vol. 20, No. 2), p. 284CrossRefGoogle Scholar.