Members of the United Federation 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:
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 information
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 Chapters XII and XIII
apply;
