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59 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-CHARTER OF UNITED NATIONS-JUNE 26, 1945 Charter of the United Nations' and Statute of the International Court of Justice. Signed at San Francisco June 26, 1945; ratifi- cation advised by the Senate of the United States of America July 28, 1945; ratified by the Presidentof the United States of America August 8, 1945; ratificationdeposited August 8, 1945; proclaimed by the President of the United States of America October 31, 1945; effective October 24, 1945. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Charter of the United Nations, with the Statute of the International Court of Justice annexed thereto, was formulated at the United Nations Conference on International Organization and was signed in San Francisco on June 26, 1945 by the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and the respective Plenipotentiaries of forty-nine other Governments, and was signed in Washington on October 15, 1945 by the Plenipotentiary of one other Government, the original of which Charter, with annexed Statute, in the Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Spanish languages, as certified by the Department of State of the United States of America, is word for word as follows: [The text of the Charter printed herein was reproduced photographically from the certified copy proclaimed by the President of the United States. That certi- fied copy was printed at San Francisco on the press run which produced the original document; the text is therefore typographically identical with the signed original of the Charter. All of the signatures herein have been reproduced photographically from the proclaimed certified copy. Signatures affixed to the original of the Charter at San Francisco on June 26, 1945 were reproduced in that certified copy by litho- graphic process. Subsequent to that date the signatures of Cordell Hull for the United States of America and W. Rzymowski for Poland were affixed to both the original and this Government's certified copy and are accordingly reproduced herein. Signatures which, subsequent to June 26, 1945, were affixed only to the original of the Charter have not been reproduced. For a romanization of the facsimile signatures see p. 1215 .] I 1031 June 2, 1945 [T. S. 993]