The Provisional Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly (rules 113-116), under which the first six new Members were admitted to membership in the United Nations, namely, Afghanistan, Iceland, Pakistan, Sweden, Thailand and Yemen, stipulated that the membership, in case of a favourable decision of the General Assembly, shall become effective on the date on which the applicant State presented to the Secretary-General an instrument of adherence. Accordingly, the membership of Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden became effective on 19 November 1946, that of Thailand on 16 December 1946 and that of Pakistan and Yemen on 30 September 1947.
By resolution 116 (II) of 21 November 1947, the General Assembly adopted new rules governing the admission of new Members. Under these rules (135-139), a declaration, made in a formal instrument accepting the obligations contained in the Charter, shall be submitted to the Secretary-General by an applicant State at the same time as the application for membership. The membership becomes effective, if the application is approved, on the date on which the General Assembly takes its decision on the application. Accordingly, for all Members other than the six mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the membership became effective on the respective dates of adoption as indicated in the third column of the table.
The declarations are registered ex officio with the Secretariat on the effective dates of membership. However, since the registration did not start until 14 December 1946, when the General Assembly, by resolution 97 (I), adopted the regulations to give effect to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, the declarations of Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden were registered on that date. Furthermore, in some instances, where the declaration accepting the obligations contained in the Charter was submitted to the Secretary-General together with the application in cabled form or emanated from a representative other than the Head of State or Government or the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the registration was not effected until the date of receipt by the Secretary-General of the confirmation of the declaration in the formal instrument bearing the signature of one of those authorities. (For the text of the Regulations to give effect to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, adopted by General Assembly resolution 97 (I) of 14 December 1946 and modified by resolutions 364 B(IV), 482 (V) and 33/141 A of l December 1949, 12 December 1950 and 18 December 1978, respectively, see United Nations, Treaty Series , vol. 859, p. VIII.)
The non registration of the declaration by Angola on 1 December 1976, the date of its membership, results from an administrative oversight.
See note 1 under “Benin” in the “Historical Information” section.
See under “Yugoslavia (former)” in chapter I.1 and notes 1 under “Bosnia and Herzegovina”, “Croatia”, “former Yugoslavia”, “Serbia and Montenegro”, “Slovenia”, “The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”and “Yugoslavia” in the “Historial Information” section.
See note 1 under “Burkina Faso” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Cambodia” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Cameroon” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Central African Republic” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under "Congo" in the "Historical Information" section.
See note 1 under “Côte d’Ivoire” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Czech Republic” and note 1 under “Slovakia” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Democratic Republic of the Congo” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Estonia” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 2 under “Germany” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Indonesia” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Lao People’s Democratic Republic” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Latvia” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Lithuania” in the “Historical Information” section.
The decision to admit Malawi, Malta and Zambia to membership in the United Nations was taken by the General Assembly during its nineteenth session at the 1286th meeting held on l December 1964.
See note 1 under “Malaysia” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Maldives” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Micronesia (Federated States of)” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Montenegro” and “Serbia and Montenegro” in the "Historocal Information" section.
See note 1 under “Myanmar” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Namibia” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Palau” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 3 under “China” and note 1 under “Portugal” regarding Macao in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Sri Lanka” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Saint Kitts and Nevis” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Suriname” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “United Republic of Tanzania” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Viet Nam” in the “Historical Information” section.
See note 1 under “Yemen” in the “Historical Information”.