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Covenant of the United League of Nations

THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honorable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another, Agree to this Covenant of the United League of Nations.

Article I

Section 1: Full members shall be those Nations which are members of the World Assembly and which shall accede without reservation to this Covenant. Such accession shall be effected by a Declaration deposited with the Secretariat in the proper forum. Notice thereof shall be sent to all other Members of the League.

Section 2: Any fully self-governing Nation (no puppets) may become a Member of the League, provided that it shall give effective guarantees of its sincere intention to observe its international obligations, and shall accept such regulations as may be prescribed by the League.

Section 3: Any Member of the League may withdraw from the League, provided that all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal. Failure to meet its obligations may result in their inability to rejoin the League.

Article II

Section 1: The action of the League under this Covenant shall be effected through the instrumentality of an Assembly and of a Council, with a permanent Secretariat.

Article III

Section 1: The Assembly shall consist of Representatives of the Full Members of the League.

Section 2: The Assembly shall meet from time to time as occasion may require at the Seat of the League or at such other place as may be decided upon.

Section 3: The Assembly may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the League or affecting the peace of the Multiverse. At meetings of the Assembly each Member of the League shall have one vote.

Article IV

Section 1: The Council shall consist of the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General, the principle secretaries, and any other representatives, not exceeding ten (10), as the Assembly may desire to appoint., with such appointments to be made at the pleasure of the Assembly and for a term to be set at that time through not exceeding one (1) year.

Section 2: With the approval of two-thirds majority of the Assembly, the Council may name additional Members of the League whose Representatives shall be permanent members of the Council, and such members shall not count against the at-large Assembly appointments.

Section 3: The Council shall meet from time to time as occasion may require at the Seat of the League, or at such other place as may be decided upon.

Section 4: The Council may deal at its meetings with any matter within the sphere of action of the League or affecting the peace of the Multiverse.

Section 5: At meetings of the Council, each Member of the League represented on the Council shall have one vote.

Article V

Section 1: Except where otherwise expressly provided in this Covenant, decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the agreement of a majority of the Members of the League represented at the meeting.

Section 2: All matters of procedure at meetings of the Assembly or of the Council, including the appointment of Committees to investigate particular matters, shall be regulated by the Assembly or by the Council, respectively, and may be decided by a majority of the Members of the League represented at the meeting.

Section 3: The Assembly shall have the power to overturn any decision or action taken by the Council or the Secretariat.

Article VI

Section 1: The Secretariat shall be established at the Seat of the League. The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such principle secretaries and staff as may be required.

Section 2: The Secretary-General shall act as presiding officer at all meetings of the Assembly and of the Council.

Section 3: The Secretary-General shall represent the United League of Nations at the World Assembly.

Section 4: The Secretary-General shall be appointed annually by the Assembly each February for a term of one (1) year beginning on the first of March.

Section 5: The Secretary-General shall appoint a Deputy Secretary-General, subject to confirmation by the Assembly, who shall, in the event of incapacity, act for the Secretary-General until such time as such service is no longer required. The Deputy Secretary-General shall assume the office of Secretary-General upon the CTE or resignation of the sitting Secretary-General. In that event, the Assembly shall be required to give confirmation to the assumption of the new office. Should the Deputy fail to win confirmation, the Assembly shall appoint a new nation to fill the office of Secretary-General. The Deputy Secretary-General may be removed from office by order of the Secretary-General or by two-thirds of the Assembly.

Section 6: The Secretary-General may, as deemed necessary, create departments and appoint principle secretaries to head those departments, subject to the approval and confirmation of the Assembly. Once created and once appointed, such departments and principle secretaries shall remain in effect until revoked by the Secretary-General or two-thirds of the Assembly.

Article VII

Section 1: All positions under or in connection with the League, including the Secretariat, shall be open equally to all from any Full Member.

Section 2: Representatives of the Members of the League and officials of the League when engaged on the business of the League shall enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities.

Section 3: The buildings and other property occupied by the League or its officials or by Representatives attending its meetings shall be inviolable.

Article VIII

Section 1: Any Nation may become an Associate member of the League at any time, provided they are not under the sanction of the League. Associate Members may engage in debate on League matters but shall have no vote.

Section 2: Representatives from other political unions outside the League may be granted Observer status. Such Representatives may engage with the League but shall have no vote, and may be expelled at the discretion of the Secretariat, Council, or Assembly.

Article IX

Section 1: The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve, against external aggression, the territorial integrity and existing political independence of the League. In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Secretariat or the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled.

Section 2: Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the Members of the League or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to the whole League, and the League shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace. In case any such emergency should arise, the Secretary-General shall, on the request of any Full Member of the League forthwith, summon a meeting of the Council.

Section 3: It is also declared to be the right of each Member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly, or of the Council, any circumstance whatever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace or the good understanding between political unions upon which peace depends.

Article X

Section 1: The Members of the League agree that, if there should arise between them any dispute likely to lead to a rupture they will submit the matter either to arbitration or judicial settlement. In any case under this Article the award of the arbitrators or the judicial decision shall be made within a reasonable time.

Section 2: The Members of the League agree that whenever any dispute shall arise between them which they recognize to be suitable for submission to arbitration or judicial settlement and which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy, they will submit the whole subject-matter to arbitration or judicial settlement.

Section 3: Disputes as to the interpretation of a treaty, as to any question of international law, as to the existence of any fact which if established would constitute a breach of any international obligation, or as to the extent and nature of the reparation to be made for any such breach, are declared to be among those which are generally suitable for submission to arbitration or judicial settlement.

Section 4: For the consideration of any such dispute, the court to which the case is referred shall be a judicial committee created by the Assembly, or any tribunal agreed on by the parties to the dispute, or stipulated in any convention existing between them. Any party to the dispute may effect such submission by giving notice of the existence of the dispute to the Secretary-General, who will make all necessary arrangements for a full investigation and consideration thereof.

Section 5: For this purpose the parties to the dispute will communicate to the committee or tribunal, as promptly as possible, statements of their case with all the relevant facts and papers, and the judicial committee/tribunal may forthwith direct the publication thereof. The judicial committee/tribunal shall endeavor to effect a settlement of the dispute, and if such efforts are successful, a statement shall be made public giving such facts and explanations regarding the dispute and the terms of settlement thereof as may be deemed appropriate.

Section 6: The Members of the League agree that they will carry out in full good faith any award or decision that may be rendered. In the event of any failure to carry out such an award or decision, the judicial committee/tribunal shall propose what steps should be taken to give effect thereto.

Section 7: If the dispute is not thus settled, the judicial committee/tribunal shall make and publish a report containing a statement of the facts of the dispute and the recommendations which are deemed just and proper in regard thereto.

Section 8: If the judicial committee/tribunal fails to reach a report which is generally agreed to by the members thereof, other than the Representatives of one or more of the parties to the dispute, the Assembly reserve to themselves the right to take such action as they shall consider necessary for the maintenance of justice.

Section 9: If the dispute between the parties is claimed by one of them and is found to arise out of a matter which by international law is solely within the domestic jurisdiction of that party, the judicial committee/tribunal shall so report, and shall make no recommendation as to its settlement.

Section 10: The Secretary-General may, in any case under this Article, refer the dispute to the Assembly.

Section 11: In any case referred to the Assembly, all the provisions of this Article relating to the action and powers of the judicial committee/tribunal shall apply to the action and powers of the Assembly, provided that a report made by the Assembly, if concurred in by the Representatives of those Members of the League represented on the Council and of a majority of the other Members of the League, exclusive in each case of the Representatives of the parties to the dispute, shall have the same force as a report by the judicial committee/tribunal concurred in by all the members thereof other than the Representatives of one or more of the parties to the dispute.

Article XI

Section 1: Should any Member of the League resort to hostile action in disregard of this covenant or League Resolutions, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of aggression against all other Members of the League, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all relations, the prohibition of all intercourse between their nation and that of the covenant-breaking Nation, and the prevention of all interactions between the nation covenant-breaking Nation and any other Member of the League.

Section 2: It shall be the duty of the Council in such case to recommend to the several Governments concerned what effective military force the Members of the League shall severally contribute to the Peacekeeping Forces to be used to protect the covenants of the League.

Section 3: The Members of the League agree, further, that they will mutually support one another in the measures which are taken under this Article, in order to minimize the loss and inconvenience resulting from the above measures, and that they will mutually support one another in resisting any special measures aimed at one of their number by the covenant-breaking Nation, and that they will take the necessary steps to afford passage through their territory to the forces of any of the Members of the League which are co-operating to protect the covenants of the League.

Section 4: Any Member of the League which has violated any covenant of the League may be declared to be no longer a Member of the League by a vote of the Council concurred in by the Assembly.

Article XII

Section 1: In the event of a dispute between the League and a Nation(s) or political union(s) which is not a Member of the League, the Nation(s) or political union(s) in question shall be invited to negotiate with the League for the purposes of resolving such dispute.

Section 2: Upon such invitation being given, the Assembly shall establish a committee to immediately institute an inquiry into the circumstances of the dispute and recommend such action as may seem best and most effectual in the circumstances.

Section 3: If such nation(s) or political union(s) shall refuse to accept the invitation, the Council may take such measures and make such recommendations, within the confines of this Covenant, as will prevent hostilities and will result in the settlement of the dispute.

Section 4: If such nation(s) or political union(s) shall refuse to accept the invitation, and shall resort to war against the League, the provisions of Article 11 shall be applicable as against the Nation(s) or political union(s) taking such action.

Article XIII

Section 1: Every treaty entered into hereafter by the League shall be forthwith registered with the Secretariat and shall as soon as possible be published by it. No such treaty or international engagement shall be binding until so registered.

Section 2: Resolutions passed by the World Assembly General Assembly shall carry the full force of law in the United League of Nations.

Section 3: Resolutions passed by the World Assembly Security Council shall carry full force of law in the United League of Nations. As such, the League may not have relations with any political union which has been condemned and any authorization of liberation shall allow for the deployment of Peacekeepers.

Article XIV

Section 1: The Members of the League severally agree that this Covenant is accepted as abrogating all obligations or understandings inter se which are inconsistent with the terms thereof, and solemnly undertake that they will not hereafter enter into any engagements inconsistent with the terms thereof.

Section 2: In case any Member of the League shall, before becoming a Member of the League, have undertaken any obligations inconsistent with the terms of this Covenant, it shall be the duty of such Member to take immediate steps to procure its release from such obligations.

Article XV

Section 1: Nothing in this Covenant shall be deemed to affect the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional understandings for securing the maintenance of peace.

Article XVI

Section 1: To those Nations or political unions which are not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such Nations form a sacred trust of more experienced and established Nations and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.

Section 2: The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such Nations or Political Unions should be entrusted to advanced Nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their position can best undertake this responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as Mandatories on behalf of the League.

Section 3: In every case of mandate, the Mandatory shall render to the Assembly a monthly report in reference to the territory committed to its charge.

Section 4: The degree of authority, control, or administration to be exercised by the Mandatory shall, if not previously agreed upon by the Members of the League, be explicitly defined in each case by the Council.

Section 5: A Commission shall be constituted to receive and examine the reports of the Mandatories and to advise the Assembly on all matters relating to the observance of the mandates.

Article XVII

Section 1: The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment of duly authorized voluntary Peacekeepers, having as purposes the improvement of peace, security, and the mitigation of suffering throughout the multiverse.

Article XVIII

Section 1: Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Council and by a two-thirds majority of the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Assembly.

Section 2: No such amendments shall bind any Member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a Member of the League.

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