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1The 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.

2The 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.)

3The non registration of the declaration by Angola on 1 December 1976, the date of its membership, results from an administrative oversight.

4See note 1 under “Benin” in the “Historical Information” section.

5See 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.

6See note 1 under “Burkina Faso” in the “Historical Information” section.

7See note 1 under “Cambodia” in the “Historical Information” section.

8See note 1 under “Cameroon” in the “Historical Information” section.

9See note 1 under “Central African Republic”  in the “Historical Information” section.

10See note 1 under "Congo" in the "Historical Information" section.

11See note 1 under “Côte d’Ivoire” in the “Historical Information” section.

12See note 1 under “Czech Republic” and note 1 under “Slovakia” in the “Historical Information” section.

13See note 1 under “Democratic Republic of the Congo”  in the “Historical Information” section.

14See note 1 under “Estonia” in the “Historical Information” section.

15See note 2 under “Germany” in the “Historical Information” section.

16See note 1 under “Indonesia” in the “Historical Information” section.

17See note 1 under “Lao People’s Democratic Republic” in the “Historical Information” section.

18See note 1 under “Latvia” in the “Historical Information” section.

19See note 1 under “Lithuania” in the “Historical Information” section.

20The 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.

21See note 1 under “Malaysia” in the “Historical Information” section.

22See note 1 under “Maldives” in the “Historical Information” section.

23See note 1 under “Micronesia (Federated States of)” in the “Historical Information” section.

24See note 1 under “Montenegro” and “Serbia and Montenegro”  in the "Historocal Information" section.

25See note 1 under “Myanmar” in the “Historical Information” section.

26See note 1 under “Namibia” in the “Historical Information” section.

27See note 1 under “Palau” in the “Historical Information” section.

28See note 3 under “China” and note 1 under “Portugal” regarding Macao in the “Historical Information” section.

29See note 1 under “Sri Lanka” in the “Historical Information” section.

30See note 1 under “Saint Kitts and Nevis” in the “Historical Information” section.

31See note 1 under “Suriname” in the “Historical Information” section.

32See note 1 under “United Republic of Tanzania” in the “Historical Information” section.

33See note 1 under “Viet Nam” in the “Historical Information” section.

34See note 1 under “Yemen” in the “Historical Information”.