In mid-August 1941, on a battleship at Newfoundland, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to issue a public document known as the Atlantic Charter, a joint Anglo-American commitment to a post-war world order. Its principles included “respect[ing] the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live… and [their] wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them” (Rich, 2003:258-259). The Charter also referred to the establishment of a wider and permanent organization for international security, i.e. the United Nations (UN).