CHAPTER I ANNEXES 39 RECOMMENDATIONS * All references to Kosovo, whether the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations’ Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo. CHAPTER VII 90 Law on Montenegrin Citizenship, Montenegro, Official Gazette of Montenegro 013/08 with amendments and supplements, adopted 26 February 2008, [unofficial translation]. Ibid., Art. 6. CHAPTER VI 89 CHAPTER V In 2011, the authorities in Montenegro and Kosovo* agreed to cooperate to assist people who had fled from Kosovo to Montenegro during the armed conflict of the 1990s and their descendants, who lacked documents proving their nationality and were unable to regularize their status in Montenegro. Although Kosovan children born in Montenegro were usually issued birth certificates by Montenegro’s civil registrar, they often lacked proof of nationality. In order to obtain proof of Kosovan nationality, the families would have needed to return to Kosovo, but could not travel there because they lacked travel documents. The authorities of Montenegro and Kosovo, together with various partner organizations, organized mobile teams from Kosovo to undertake late birth registration of Kosovans living in Montenegro, which was necessary to confirm Kosovan nationality. The process of completing late birth registration and issuing identity documents was more complex for children who were born outside a hospital but was not impossible. Having received CHAPTER IV There are also legal safeguards to prevent statelessness for children born to Montenegrin nationals outside Montenegro and for adopted children.90 Article 6 of the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship foresees the acquisition of Montenegrin citizenship on the basis of complete adoption of a child, if one of the adopters is a Montenegrin citizen and a child does not have citizenship of another adopter. CHAPTER III The Law on Montenegrin Citizenship89 contains conditional jus soli principles: Article 7 allows the acquisition of Montenegrin citizenship by all children born or found on the territory of Montenegro whose parents’ identities or nationalities are unknown, if the parents are stateless, or if a child will remain without nationality and the child cannot acquire the nationality of either parent or of any country in which either parent has lived. The combination of jus sanguinis and jus soli principles should ensure that no child is left stateless. CHAPTER II territory of Montenegro, by admittance and based on international treaties and agreements. Additionally, women and men have equal rights in passing their citizenship to children born inside or outside the country, and children whose parents were not married have equal rights to acquisition of citizenship.

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