...Part I, No. 782, 30 November 1956, p. 31). * Article 51 : Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain...

...Charter. 46. Article 51 of the Charter prescribes that: "Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations . . ." But that provision cannot reasonably be interpreted to mean that...

...and thereby to depart from the law of neutrality. Under Article 51 of the Charter, States have the right of individual or collective selfdefence if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations. It is argued that, by virtue of the right of collective self-defence,...

...the Charter would make military alliances unnecessary. It is true that the Charter does not impair the inherent right of 'individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs' (Art. 51) and that 'regional arrangements or agencies' are permitted so long as they are consistent...

...broke a negotiated cease-fire. Did not Article 51 of the UN Charter declare that "nothing shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective selfdefence if an armed attack occurs"? There was, of course, in the same sentence of the same Article the rider, "until the Security Council...

...outside the Charter framework strictly defined, relying particularly upon Article 51 which asserts an "inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs". The reference to Article 51 was in effect an assertion of a right, which they possessed anyway under...

...a starting-point for remarks on this score. Nothing in the Charter, so it stipulates, shall impair "the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations". The right of selfdefence, as noted earlier, exists only in relation...

...zur individuellen oder kollektiven Selbstverteidigung im Falle eines bewaffneten Angriffs KVAE86(11) the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs le droit naturel de légitime défense, individuelle ou collective, dans le cas d'une agression armée...

...formal status of article 51 of the United Nations Charter: 'Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs . . .', and in less formal customary international law (Brownlie 1963: 269-75). Such a right to self-defence...

...United Nations, States shall fulfil in good faith all their international obligations. 13. States have t. Suppl 1.A.6.3.h 43 2. Where the same stock or stocks of associated species occur bo as set forth in the Charter. II 14. States shall maKe every effort to build their international relations...