4. Expressing support to the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness launched by UNHCR in 2014 and noting active engagement of the Central Asian States with the Global Action Plan, including Action 74, (on ensuring birth registration for prevention of statelessness); 5. Expressing our interest to actively participate in the High Level Event on Statelessness, in Geneva in October 2019, which will mark the mid-point of the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, by showcasing achievements and presenting concrete pledges to help end statelessness by 2024; 6. Taking into account the outcomes of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Ministerial Conference in Asia and Pacific in November 2014, in which Ministers of the Central Asian countries participated, that adopted the Ministerial Declaration ‘Get Everyone in the Picture’ and the accompanying Regional Action Framework endorsing the goal of achieving universal and responsive CRVS system by 2024;5 7. Noting that a number of children in Central Asia born to parents without identity documents and status remain unregistered at birth and may become stateless in the future; 8. Noting that children born in the countries of Central Asia, to parents who are unable to confer nationality will remain stateless; 9. Noting that there are at least 109,000 stateless persons or persons with undetermined nationality in Central Asia, who are unable to naturalize, to have their citizenship confirmed, or to obtain identity documentation due to lengthy and onerous procedures; 10. Recognizing that national legislation pertaining to the Civil Acts Registration in Central Asian countries could be strengthened to enhance the system for birth registration, to guarantee the right for every child born on the territory to be registered at birth even in the case that their parents are undocumented and/or stateless; 11. Recognizing that the quantitative and qualitative data on stateless population, persons with undetermined nationality and birth registration including late birth registration, need improvement in order to assess the scale of statelessness and design measures to respond. 4 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Global Action Plan to End Statelessness, 4 November 2014, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/545b47d64.html 5 UNESCAP, Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific (10 December 2014), UN Doc. E/ESCAP/MCCRVS/4, available at http://undocs.org/en/E/ESCAP/MCCRVS/4 2