ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND PRACTICES OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Abstract

According to the Article 4(1) of the Charter of the United Nations four conditions (Stateness, Peace-Loving, Acceptance of the Obligations in the Charters Obligation) should be maintained for the admission of the new Members.
Despite the express enunciation of these conditions and the confirmation of those conditions by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in his Advisory Opinion on “The Conditions of Admission of a State in the United Nations “(1948), The U.N. practices has not always been compatible with the Article 4(1) of the Charter and it seems that the U.N. practices and decisions in this issue has generally been based on the political considerations.
In this Paper, after examining the conditions of the new Members and analyzing the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion in this matter, it will be finally focused on the question of compatibility of the admission of Israel to the dispositions of the Article 4(1) of the Charter of the United Nations

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