Orion Arm Union Charter - Chapter VI

=Article 33= =Article 34= The Action Committee may investigate any dispute, or any situation which might lead to interstellar friction or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of interstellar peace and security. =Article 35= =Article 36= =Article 37= =Article 38= Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 33 to 37, the Action Committee may, if all the parties to any dispute so request, make recommendations to the parties with a view to a pacific settlement of the dispute.
 * 1) The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is likely to endanger the maintenance of interstellar peace and security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice.
 * 2) The Action Committee shall, when it deems necessary, call upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means.
 * 1) Any Member of the Orion Arm Union may bring any dispute, or any situation of the nature referred to in Article 34, to the attention of the Action Committee or of the Union Council.
 * 2) A state which is not a Member of the Orion Arm Union may bring to the attention of the Action Committee or of the Union Council any dispute to which it is a party if it accepts in advance, for the purposes of the dispute, the obligations of pacific settlement provided in the present Charter.
 * 3) The proceedings of the Union Council in respect of matters brought to its attention under this Article will be subject to the provisions of Articles 11 and 12.
 * 1) The Action Committee may, at any stage of a dispute of the nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like nature, recommend appropriate procedures or methods of adjustment.
 * 2) The Action Committee should take into consideration any procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already been adopted by the parties.
 * 3) In making recommendations under this Article the Action Committee should also take into consideration that legal disputes should as a general rule be referred by the parties to the interstellar Court of Justice in accordance with the provisions of the Statute of the Court.
 * 1) Should the parties to a dispute of the nature referred to in Article 33 fail to settle it by the means indicated in that Article, they shall refer it to the Action Committee.
 * 2) If the Action Committee deems that the continuance of the dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of interstellar peace and security, it shall decide whether to take action under Article 36 or to recommend such terms of settlement as it may consider appropriate.