The purposes of the United Federation of Planets are:
1. To maintain interplanetary peace and security within
the treaty exploration territory, and to that end:
to take effective collective measures for the prevention
of threats to the peace, the suppression of acts of aggression, and
to bring about by peaceful means, and employing the principles of justice
and intragalactic law, adjustment or settlement of interplanetary disputes
which might lead to a breach of the peace;
2. To develop friendly relations among planets based
on respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination
of intelligent life-forms, and to other appropriate measures to strengthen
universal peace;
3. To achieve interplanetary cooperation in solving
intra-galactic problems of economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian
character; in promoting and encouraging respect for intelligent life-form
rights; and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as
to culture, sex, life-form, or religious belief; and
4. To be a center for conciliation of the actions of
all social systems in the attainment of these common ends.
The United Federation of Planets and its members, in
pursuit of the purposes stated, shall act in accordance with the following
principles:
1. The United Federation of Planets is based on the
sovereign equality of all its members;
2. In order to ensure to all of them the rights and
benefits resulting from membership, all members shall fulfill in good
faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with these Articles
of Federation;
3. All members shall settle their interplanetary disputes
by peaceful means in such manner that intragalactic peace, security,
and justice, are not endangered;
4. In all interplanetary relations, all members shall
refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity
or political independence of any planetary social system, or in any
manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Federation of Planets;
5. All members shall give the United Federation of Planets
every assistance in any action taken in accordance with these Articles
of Federation, and shall refrain from assisting any planetary social
system against which the United Federation of Planets is taking preventive
or enforcement action;
6. The United Federation of Planets shall ensure that
planetary social systems which are not members of the United Federation
of Planets act in accordance with these principles as necessary for
the maintenance of intra-galactic peace and security;
7. Nothing within these Articles of Federation shall
authorize the United Federation of Planets to intervene in matters which
are essentially the domestic jurisdiction of any planetary social system,
or shall require the members to submit such matters to settlement under
these Articles of Federation; but this principle shall not prejudice
the application of enforcement measures under Chapter
VII.