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 TREATIES 2. Any alteration of the present Charter rec- ommended by a two-thirds vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations in- cluding all the permanent members of the Security Council. 3. If such a conference has not been held be- fore the tenth annual session of the General As- sembly following the coming into force of the pres- ent Charter, the proposal to call such a conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the General Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a majority vote of the mem- bers of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council. CHAPTER XX RATIFICATION AND SIGNATURE Article 110 1. The present Charter shall be ratified by the signatory states in accordance with their respec- tive constitutional processes. 2. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Government of the United States of America, which shall notify all the signatory states of each deposit as well as the Secretary-General of the Organization when he has been appointed. 3. The present Charter shall come into force upon the deposit of ratifications by the Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, and by a majority of the other signatory states. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be drawn up by the Government of the United States of America which shall com- municate copies thereof to all the signatory states. -4 . The states signatory to the present Charter which ratify it after it has come into force will be- come original Members of the United Nations on the date of the deposit of their respective ratifi- cations. Article 111 The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America. Duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by that Government to the Govern- ments of the other signatory states. IN FAITH WHEREOF the representatives of the Governments of the United Nations have signed the present Charter. DONE at the city of San Francisco the twenty- sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five. [59 STAT.

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