ChaChapter 1: Nationality and Statelessness […] Urges Member States in general and those Member States, which have the presence of stateless persons in particular, to take the necessary legal and institutional measures to ameliorate the precarious situation of stateless persons.41 As such, this is an issue which has been shown to be of concern to states in the region. Moreover, in recognition of their central role in establishing a framework for the prevention of statelessness and protection of stateless people, the Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation has, in the same resolution, invited its member states “to consider the possibility of acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness to address the plight of stateless persons in an effective way”.42 For the MENA region in particular, this is a welcome and necessary encouragement: at the time of writing only Libya and Tunisia were state parties to both the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, while Algeria was a state party to just the latter of these two. 41 - Resolution of the Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation on “Legal identity and statelessness���, 8 April 2006, paras. 4 and 5. 42 - Ibid, para 6. 37