(x) Requests UNHCR to further improve the training of its own staff and those of other
United Nations agencies on issues relating to statelessness to enable UNHCR to provide
technical advice to States Parties on the implementation of the 1954 Convention so as to
ensure consistent implementation of its provisions.
ExCom Conclusion No. 78 (XLVI) – 1995
(a) Acknowledges the responsibilities already entrusted to the High Commissioner for
stateless refugees and with respect to the reduction of statelessness, and encourages UNHCR
to continue its activities on behalf of stateless persons, as part of its statutory function of
providing international protection and of seeking preventive action, as well as its
responsibility entrusted by the General Assembly to undertake the functions foreseen under
Article 11 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;
(c) Requests UNHCR actively to promote accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the
Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, in
view of the limited number of States parties to these instruments, as well as to provide
relevant technical and advisory services pertaining to the preparation and implementation of
nationality legislation to interested States;
(d) Further requests UNHCR actively to promote the prevention and reduction of
statelessness through the dissemination of information, and the training of staff and
government officials; and to enhance cooperation with other interested organizations;
ExCom Conclusion No. 107(LVIII) – 2007
(h) Further recommends that States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners
undertake the following non-exhaustive prevention, response and solution measures in order
to address specific wider environmental or individual risks factors:
Safeguard the right of every child to acquire a nationality, and ensure the
implementation of this right in accordance with national laws and obligations under
the relevant international instruments in this field, in particular where the child would
otherwise be stateless; and consider the active dissemination of information regarding
access to naturalization procedures.
ExCom Conclusion No.96 (LIV) – 2003
(j) Recommends, depending on the situation, that UNHCR complement the efforts of States in
the return of persons found not to be in need of international protection by:
• Promoting with States those principles which bear on their responsibility to accept
back their nationals, as well as principles on the reduction of statelessness;
• Taking clear public positions on the acceptability of return of persons found not to be
in need of international protection,
• Continuing its dialogue with States to review their citizenship legislation, particularly
if it allows renunciation of nationality without at the same time ensuring that the
person in question has acquired another nationality and could be used to stop or delay
the return of a person to a country of nationality;