Editing Articles of the Federation (section)

===Article 72===

Members of the United Federation of Planets which have assumed responsibilities for the administration of regions whose intelligent life-forms have not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these regions are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of interplanetary peace and security established by these Articles of Federation, the well-being of the inhabitants of these regions, and, to this end, take as their aims:

'''A.)''' To ensure, with due respect for the cultures of the intelligent life-forms concerned, their political, economic, social, and educational advancement, their just treatment, and their protection against abuses;

'''B.)''' To develop self-government, to take due account of the political aspirations of the intelligent life-forms, and to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions, according to the particular circumstances of each region and its intelligent life-forms and their varying stages of advancement;

'''C.)''' To further interplanetary peace and security;

'''D.)''' To promote constructive measures of development, to encourage research, and to cooperate with one another and, when and where appropriate, with specialized interplanetary bodies with a view to the practical achievement of the social, economic, and scientific purposes set forth in this article; and

'''E.)''' To transmit regularly to the Supreme-Secretariat for informational purposes, subject to such limitations as security and statutory considerations may require, statistical and other information of a technical nature relating to economic, social, and educational conditions in the regions for which they are respectively responsible other than those regions to which Chapter XII and XIII apply.