Application Currently, both Lebanon and Syria have enacted provisions in line with the 1961 Convention’s Article 1 safeguard against statelessness, which grants nationality to children born in their territory who would otherwise be stateless at birth.44 In practice, it seems as though these provisions are not consistently implemented, as there are no provisions in domestic law to define a “stateless person”, nor to conduct a formal determination of when an individual in the territory is stateless. Implementing these measures would complement the existing law, and would greatly assist in ensuring that no child born on these territories is left without a nationality.45 21