Members of the United Federation of Planets which have
assumed responsibilities for the administration of regions whose intelligent
life-forms have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize
the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these regions
are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote
to the utmost, within the system of interplanetary peace and security
established by these Articles of Federation, the well-being of the inhabitants
of these regions, and, to this end, take as their aims:
A) To ensure, with due respect for the cultures of
the intelligent life-forms concerned, their political, economic, social,
and educational advancement, their just treatment, and their protection
against abuses;
B) To develop self-government, to take due account
of the political aspirations of the intelligent life-forms, and to
assist them in the progressive development of their free political
institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each region
and its intelligent life-forms and their varying stages of advancement;
C) To further interplanetary peace and security;
D) To promote constructive measures of development,
to encourage research, and to cooperate with one another and, when
and where appropriate, with specialized interplanetary bodies with
a view to the practical achievement of the social, economic, and scientific
purposes set forth in this article; and
E) To transmit regularly to the Supreme-Secretariat
for informational purposes, subject to such limitations as security
and statutory considerations may require, statistical and other information
of a technical nature relating to economic, social, and educational
conditions in the regions for which they are respectively responsible
other than those regions to which Chapter
XII and XIII apply.