| 1 | Several references to "enemy states" remain in the U.N. Charter. | |
| 2 | Another is the failure to invoke Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which makes the resolution mandatory. | |
| 3 | The United Nations' hallmark contribution - peacekeeping - was not even mentioned in the charter. | |
| 4 | Various treaties and the United Nations Charter and the Hague and Geneva conventions are able to draw official distinctions between victims and aggressors. | |
| 5 | In 1945, 51 nations in a world shaken by war signed the Charter of the United Nations. |