Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 2.djvu/473

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Article 2. Integrity and Independence The integrity and independence of the Free Territory shall be assured by the Security Council of the United Nations Organization. This respon- sibility implies that the Council shall: (a) ensure the observance of the present Statute and in particular the protection of the basic human rights of the inhabitants. (b) ensure the maintenance of public order and security in the Free Territory. Article 3. Demilitarisationand Neutrality 1. The Free Territory shall be demilitarised and declared neutral. 2. No armed forces, except upon direction of the Security Council, shall be allowed in the Free Territory. 3. No para-military formations, exercises or activities shall be per- mitted within the Free Territory. 4. The Government of the Free Territory shall not make or discuss any military arrangements or undertakings with any State. Article 4. Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms The Constitution of the Free Territory shall ensure to all persons under the jurisdiction of the Free Territory, without distinction as to ethnic origin, sex, language or religion, the enjoyment of human rights and of the fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religious worship, language, speech and publication, education, assembly and association. Citizens of the Free Territory shall be assured of equality of eligibility for public office. Article 5. Civil and PoliticalRights No person who has acquired the citizenship of the Free Territory shall be deprived of his civil or political rights except as judicial punishment for the infraction of the penal laws of the Free Territory. Article 6. Citizenship 1. Italian citizens who were domiciled on June 10, 1940, in the area comprised within the boundaries of the Free Territory, and their children born after that date, shall become original citizens of the Free Territory with full civil and political rights. Upon becoming citizens of the Free Territory they shall lose their Italian citizenship. 1430 [61 STAT. TREATIES