Charter of the Atlantic

This solemn declaration, made the August 14th 1941, made following the Conference of the Atlantic, held on board a warship in the Atlantic , with broad of Newfoundland, between the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British the Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The charter, which takes again and supplements the Speech of four freedoms of Roosevelt, undertakes to throw the bases of a new international policy world Conquête of the human rights '', [[Seek-Midday Editor|Seeks midday] and UNESCO, 1998].

The principles on which the two men base their hopes of a " better future for the monde" are:

  1. Judgment of any territorial annexation;
  2. Respect of the will of the people for any territorial modification;
  3. Right of the people to have themselves;
  4. commercial Freedom;
  5. International cooperation and development of the Welfare state;
  6. Safety of the citizens;
  7. Freedom of movement at sea;
  8. Disarmament

The text also denounces the " tyranny nazie".

The Charter of the Atlantic was used as a basis for the Déclaration of the United Nations, signed on January 1st, 1942 by the representatives of twenty-six country in war against the Germany, like with the Charte of the United Nations, signed on June 26th, 1945 with San Francisco.

External bonds

  • Library Jeanne Hersch

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