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 adequate means, to provide for effective reciprocal assistance to meet armed attacks against any American State, and in order to deal with threats of aggression against any of them: ARTICLE 1 Condemnation of The High Contracting Parties formally condemn war and undertake war. in their international relations not to resort to the threat or the use of force in any manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Charter 59 stat. 1031. of the United Nations or of this Treaty. ARTICLE 2 Settlement of contro- versie As a consequence of the principle set forth in the preceding Article, the High Contracting Parties undertake to submit every controversy which may arise between them to methods of peaceful settlement and to endeavor to settle any such controversy among themselves by means of the procedures in force in the Inter-American System before re- ferring it to the General Assembly or the Security Council of the United Nations. ARTICLE 3 Collective sel-de- 1. The High Contracting Parties agree that an armed attack by any State against an American State shall be considered as an attack against all the American States and, consequently, each one of the said Contracting Parties undertakes to assist in meeting the attack in the exercise of the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense M9stat. 10 recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. 2. On the request of the State or States directly attacked and until the decision of the Organ of Consultation of the Inter-American Sys- tem, each one of the Contracting Parties may determine the immediate measures which it may individually take in fulfillment of the obligation contained in the preceding paragraph and in accordance with the prin- ciple of continental solidarity. The Organ of Consultation shall meet without delay for the purpose of examining those measures and agree- ing upon the measures of a collective character that should be taken. 3. The provisions of this Article shall be applied in case of any armed attack which takes place within the region described in Article 4 or within the territory of an American State. When the attack takes place outside of the said areas, the provisions of Article 6 shall be applied. 4. Measures of self-defense provided for under this Article may be taken until the Security Council of the United Nations has taken the measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. ARTICLE 4 Regional bound- aries. The region to which this Treaty refers is bounded as follows: be- ginning at the North Pole; thence due south to a point 74 degrees north latitude, 10 degrees west longitude; thence by a rhumb line to a point 47 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, 50 degrees west longitude; thence by a rhumb line to a point 35 degrees north latitude, 60 degrees west longitude; thence due south to a point in 20 degrees north lati- tude; thence by a rhumb line to a point 5 degrees north latitude, 24 1700 TREATIES [62 STAT.

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