There is also a separate Law On State Guarantees to Ethnic Kyrgyz Returning to their Historical Homeland, which allows for preferential terms for naturalisation of Ethnic Kyrgyz, which has been discussed in earlier sections. In addition, there are interstate agreements which provide for even quicker acquisition of citizenship. Thus, under point 2 of the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation on a simplified procedure for acquisition of citizenship by a person with citizenship of one of the Parties independent of the length of residence in the territory of the Party of which citizenship is to be acquired. This Agreement is implemented in the Kyrgyz Republic by means of the Regulation On Simplified Procedure for Acquisition of Citizenship of the Kyrgyz Republic by Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation, brought into law by Government Decree 684 of 13 December 1993. There are also analogous separate agreements with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan. Based on the above, it can be concluded that the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic with regard to naturalisation of stateless persons is quite good. 3.2.8 Other issues a) Resolution of disputes Like the 1961 Convention, the 1954 Convention envisages that all disputes between Contracting States which cannot be settled by other means may be referred to the International Court of Justice at the request of a party to the dispute. This does not harm the interests of Kyrgyzstan. b) Reservations Unlike the 1961 Convention, under which reservations can only be made to certain provisions, under the 1954 Convention, reservations can be made to any provisions, with the exception of recognition by Contracting States of the fundamentals, in particular Article 3 (non-discrimination), Article 4 (freedom of religion), Article 16(1) (free access to courts) and Articles 33-42 (final clauses). c) Final clauses The final clauses recommend to all Contracting States that when they recognise as valid the reasons for which a person has renounced the protection of the state of which he/she is a national, they consider sympathetically the possibility of according the person the treatment which the Convention accords to stateless persons. This recommendation was included on behalf of de facto stateless persons who, technically, still hold a nationality but do not receive any of the benefits generally associated with nationality, and first of all diplomatic protection. As already stated, such provisions do not exist in the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, and therefore if the Kyrgyz Republic accedes to the Convention, the country should honour these recommendations of the Convention. 3.3 Conclusions and recommendations Based on the above, this part of the research leads to the following conclusions and recommendations: 1) The legal analysis carried out has shown that the relevant legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic on citizenship, the legal status of foreigners and external migration is in accordance with the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and that therefore a recommendation can be made that the Kyrgyz Republic accedes to the Small Changes ‫ ـ‬Big Gains: An Action Plan to Prevent and Reduce Statelessness in the Kyrgyz Republic 44