34 Pledges 2011 - Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons Theme of the Pledge Accession to, or taking steps to accede to, one or both of the Statelessness Conventions or other treaty action States/Groups of States/Organizations making a pledge Africa: Benin (both Conventions), Burundi (1961 Convention), the Central African Republic (both Conventions), Côte d’Ivoire (both Conventions), the Gambia (both Conventions), Guinea (1961 Convention), Guinea-Bissau (both Conventions), Madagascar (1961 Convention), Mozambique (both Conventions), Sierra Leone (both Conventions), South Africa (both Conventions), South Sudan (both Conventions), Togo (both Conventions), the United Republic of Tanzania (both Conventions) and Zambia (1961 Convention) Americas: Argentina (1961 Convention), Colombia (1961 Convention), Ecuador (1961 Convention), Haiti (both Conventions), Honduras (both Conventions), Paraguay (both Conventions) and Peru (both Conventions) Asia and the Pacific: The Philippines (1961 Convention) Europe: Belgium (1961 Convention), Bulgaria (both Conventions), Georgia (1954 Convention), Hungary (lifting reservations to the 1954 Convention), Luxembourg (1961 Convention), Portugal (both Conventions), the Republic of Moldova (both Conventions), Spain (1961 Convention), Sweden (lifting reservations to the 1954 Convention), Turkey (both Conventions) and Ukraine (both Conventions) Middle East and North Africa: Yemen (both Conventions) Example of pledges South Africa: “The Government of South Africa hereby pledges to become a signatory and party to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the subsequent 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness following an internal consultative process.”