Table 4: Respondents’ citizenship Country of Citizenship Number of respondents Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Iran Kazakhstan People’s Republic of China Kyrgyz Republic Russian Federation % of respondents 0.91% 0.13% 0.13% 0.13% 7.05% 0.13% 3.00% 9.27% 7 1 1 1 54 1 23 71 293 70 1 4 239 766 Tajikistan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Stateless TOTAL 38.25% 9.14% 0.13% 0.52% 31.20% 100.00% Possession or lack of basic identity documents Table 5 summarizes respondents’ answers about whether they possess basic identity documents. Multiple answers were possible if the respondent possessed several different identity documents. • • • USSR passport Foreign passport Kyrgyz birth certificate Foreign birth certificate Military ID Marriage certificate In possession Never issued Lost Not applicable Not indicated/ unknown Kyrgyz international passport Document Kyrgyz internal passport Table 5: Basic identity documents 265 324 0 2147 118 125 0 2509 501 3 50 2211 731 59 21 1935 518 61 46 2105 968 49 16 1611 450 65 15 2249 2108 26 103 602 108 92 79 98 114 200 65 5 501 respondents have 1974 USSR passports 731 have foreign passports (see chart 2.1) 2,108 children have birth certificates issued by a foreign country (see table 6) The Situation of Stateless Persons in the Kyrgyz Republic: Findings of Surveys Commissioned by the UNHCR 43