Persons in the Americas (Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June
5, 2013)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
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CONSIDERING that at the Ministerial Meeting of Member States of the United Nations
on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Convention relating to the Status of
Refugees of 1951 and the 50th Anniversary of the Convention on the Reduction of
Statelessness of 1961, held in Geneva on December 7 and 8, 2011, the participating states
recognized that “the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1954
Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons are the principal international
statelessness instruments, which provide important standards for the prevention and
resolution of statelessness and safeguards for the protection of stateless people,” and
considered becoming a party to those Conventions, where appropriate, and/or
strengthening their policies for preventing and reducing statelessness;
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CONSIDERING ALSO that in the Brasilia Declaration on the Protection of Refugees and
Stateless Persons in the Americas of November 11, 2010, it was resolved to “urge
countries in the Americas to consider acceding to the international instruments on
statelessness,
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RECOGNIZING ALSO that 15 member states of the Organization of American States
(OAS) have acceded to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;
that nine are parties to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; that
Honduras recently became party to both international instruments; and that Ecuador and
Paraguay recently became parties to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;
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EMPHASIZING the importance of the right to nationality in the Americas, recognized in
Article XIX of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and in Article
20 of the American Convention on Human Rights, as well as the relevance of promoting
accession to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;
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RESOLVES:
1. To invite those member states that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or
acceding to, as the case may be, the international instruments in the area of stateless
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