1.   But as the U.N. charter was being drafted, and in the years that followed, several things undermined the hope for harmony.

2.   A committee would draft a charter to establish a transitional government headed by a presidential council.

3.   Annan recalled that the U.N. charter was drafted to protect the rights of individuals.

4.   The committee said it will draft a charter at its first conference within three months.

5.   The mood among delegates to the Constitutional Assembly drafting the charter was summed up by deputy chairman Leon Wessels of the National Party in a midday briefing for journalists.