The Charter of the United Nations is the founding document of the United Nations and a multilateral treaty. It was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. The Charter has been amended three times in 1963, 1965, and 1973.
The current status of this agreement can be found on the UN Treaty Collection website.
The Charter is deposited with the government of the United States. A certified true copy was presented to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on 2 January 2008 by Allen Weinstein of the United States National Archives.
The Library holds a collection of translations of the UN Charter into various languages.