Meeting of Forth Committee at Opera House, San Francisco Conference

Delegates of fifty nations met in San Francisco between 25 April and 26 June 1945. Working on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the Yalta Agreement, and amendments proposed by various Governments, the Conference agreed upon the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the New International Court of Justice. The Charter was passed unanimously and signed by all the representatives. It came into force on October 24, 1945, when China, France, the USSR, the United Kingdom, the United States and a majority of the other signatories had filed their instruments of ratification.

Abdel Hamid Pasha Badawi, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chairman of the Egyptian Delegation (right) at the Commission IV meeting in the Opera House, May 19. Sitting behind him, Julian R. Caceres, Honduran Ambassador to the United States; and Chairman of the Delegation from Honduras