Continuing efforts to identify stateless persons, including through population census, surveys and registration campaigns;
Strengthening cooperation between States to confirm the identify and nationality of specific individuals;
Ensuring that individuals who lack valid identity documents, including holders of expired USSR passports, are issued with documentation,490 thereby confirming their legal status in the State;
Ensuring that all children born on the territory of the State are registered at birth;
Legal and administrative reform to address provisions and practices which cause statelessness or pose obstacles to the reduction of statelessness in Central Asia, specifically provisions and practices under which: a. Some children born on the territory of the State or to nationals abroad are at risk of statelessness due to lack of adequate legal safeguards to prevent statelessness at birth; b. A citizen is permitted to renounce his/her citizenship without possessing another citizenship, or the assurance of acquiring one; c. Prolonged residence abroad without consular registration can lead to loss of citizenship; d. Stateless persons applying for residence permits or citizenship are required to submit a certificate to confirm they do not possess the nationality of other States with which they have links, without providing for exceptions for situations where the States concerned fail to reply.
Facilitating acquisition of nationality for stateless persons through simplified procedures, including through reduced residency and documentation requirements and waiving of fees;
Establishing formal procedures for the determination of statelessness status;
Granting a legal status, basic rights and identity documentation to stateless persons for an interim period until they are able to acquire a nationality;
Considering accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. At the close of the Regional Conference, the participants welcomed the upcoming 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. It was agreed that progress to address the areas identified above will be reviewed one year after the regional conference. 490 National passport, passport of a foreign State or identity document for stateless persons ~ 74 ~