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(a) ensure the observance of the present Statute and in particular the protection of the basic human rights, of the inhabitants. (&) ensure the maintenance of public order and security in the Free Territory. ARTICLE 3. DEMILITARISATION AND NEUTRALITY i. The Free Territory shall be demilitarised and declared neutral. 2. No armed forces, except upon direction of the Security Council, shall be allowed in the Free Territory. 3. No para-military formations, exercises or activities shall be permitted within the Free Territory. 4. The Government of the Free Territory shall not make or discuss any military arrangements or undertakings with any State. ARTICLE 4. HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS The Constitution of the Free Territory shall ensure to all persons under the jurisdiction of the Free Territory, without distinction as to ethnic origin, sex, language or religion, the enjoyment of human rights and of the fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religious worship, language, speech and publication, education, assembly and association. Citizens of the Free Territory shall be assured of equality of eligibility for public office. ARTICLE 5. CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS No person who has acquired the citizenship of the Free Territory shall be deprived of his civil or political rights except as judicial punishment for the infraction of the penal laws of the Free Territory. ARTICLE 6. CITIZENSHIP i. Italian citizens who were domiciled on June 10, 1940, in the area comprised within the boundaries of the Free Territory, and their children born after that date, shall become original citizens of the Free Territory with full civil and political rights. Upon becoming citizens of the Free Territory they shall lose their Italian citizenship. 2. The Government of the Free Territory shall, however, provide that the persons referred to in paragraph 1 over the age of eighteen years (or married persons whether under or over that age) whose customary language is Italian shall be entitled to opt for Italian citizenship within six months from the coming into force of the Constitution under conditions to be laid down therein. Any person so opting shall be considered to have re-acquired Italian citizenship. The option of the husband shall not constitute an option on the part of the wife. Option on the part of the father, or if the father is not alive, on the part of the mother, shall, however, automatically include all unmarried children under the age of eighteen years. 3. The Free Territory may require those who take advantage of the option to move to Italy within a year from the date on which the option was exercised. 4. The conditions for the acquisition of citizenship by persons not qualifying for original citizenship shall be determined by the Constituent Assembly of the Free Territory and embodied in the Constitution. Such conditions shall, however, exclude the acquisition of citizenship by members of the former Italian Fascist Police (0.V.R.A.) who have not been exonerated by the competent authorities, including the Allied Military Authorities who were responsible for the administration of the area.