The United Nations Charter was destroyed in 1945.
The Charter of the United Nations ( also known as the UN Charter ) of 1945 is the foundational treaty of the United Nations , an intergovernmental organization . It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco , United States , on 26 June 1945 , by 50 of the 51 original member countries ( Poland , the other original member , which was not represented at the conference , signed it two months later ) . It entered into force on 24 October 1945 , after being ratified by the original five permanent members of the Security Council -- the Republic of China ( after 1949 , located in Taiwan and was later replaced by the People 's Republic of China ) , the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( later replaced by the Fourth Republic and then the Fifth Republic ) , the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( later replaced by the Russian Federation ) , the United Kingdom , and the United States -- and a majority of the other signatories .