http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3f93aede7.html The Executive Committee, […] (w) Encourages UNHCR's efforts to promote all State activities that reduce or resolve statelessness and to promote further accessions to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, as effective tools for the prevention of statelessness, which may lead to the reduction of refugee flows and the implementation of durable solutions, and reiterates its encouragement for States to consider accession to these instruments, where appropriate; • Conclusion No. 90 (LII) - 2001 http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3bd3e3024.html The Executive Committee, […] (p) Reiterates its call for States to consider accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and encourages UNHCR to continue to promote further accessions to and full implementation of both instruments by the States concerned; • Conclusion No. 87 (L) – 1999 http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3ae68c6ec.html The Executive Committee, […] (s) Notes with concern the persistence of statelessness problems; welcomes the accession of Chad to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, as well as the accession of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Zimbabwe to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons; and encourages UNHCR to continue to promote further accessions to and full implementation of both instruments by the States concerned; • Conclusion No. 85 (XLIX) – 1998 http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3ae68c6e30.html The Executive Committee, […] (m) Reaffirms the importance of the right to a nationality and calls on States to adopt all necessary measures to prevent or reduce the incidence of statelessness, including through national legislation and, as appropriate, accession to and implementation of the Statelessness Conventions; draws particular and urgent attention in this regard to the situation of children of refugees and asylum-seekers born in asylum countries who could be stateless unless appropriate legislation and registration procedures are in place and are followed; • Conclusion No. 81 (XLVIII) – 1997 http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3ae68c690.html 5

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