52 Pledges 2011 - Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons • Support for participation in public life, such as membership in associations • Establishment of other integration projects Furthermore UNHCR was granted observer status in the newly established advisory board for integration matters. AZERBAIJAN PLEDGE FORM The Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan pledges: 1. To participate in making amendments and additions to the relevant legislative acts in order to improve the procedure for considering applications of persons seeking refugee status; 2. To participate in the preparation and adoption of the international document concerning the protection of rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons; and 3. To contribute to increasing, on the global scale, public awareness of the problems faced by internally displaced persons. Additionally, the delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan stated its intention to continue the close cooperation with UNHCR for the elimination of the protection gaps, strengthening the protection regime and asylum system, the thorough study and analysis of statelessness in the country, as well as in the field of regulation of participation of refugees in the labor market. BELARUS EXCERPTS FROM NATIONAL STATEMENT Belarus is committed to the purposes and principles of the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol, including such fundamental principles as access to the territory by asylum-seekers, conducting a fair refugee status determination procedure, as well as of non-refoulement. By the end of next year we plan to begin the process of granting recognized refugees with machine-readable travel documents, which are designed in accordance with the 1951 Convention and the documents of the International Civil Aviation Organization. This measure is aimed at providing addi-