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Fifty countries drafted the UN Charter

Representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco in 1945 to draft and sign the United Nations Charter.

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The conference ran from April 25 to June 26. The United Nations officially began on October 24, 1945, once the Charter had been ratified.

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