116 | Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Dominican Republic taken away, were unable to register their own children. Thus, the Constitutional Court rendered another generation stateless. 271 269. As previously mentioned, in operative paragraph five of judgment TC/0168/13 the Constitutional Court ordered the Central Electoral Board to audit the Registry’s record books for the period from 1929 to 2007, and to send a list of persons irregularly registered with the Civil Registry to the Ministry of the Interior and Police. The Commission observes that in compliance with the judgment in question, on May 26, 2015 the Central Electoral Board presented the “Results of the Audit of the Registry for the period 1929-2007.” The audit checked 116,506 volumes of records, with 16,748,568 pages containing the Dominican Republic’s history of records for the period in question. The Central Electoral Board found that 53,827 books, representing a total of 10,321,799 pages, contained records of persons that needed to be checked. In the end, it was able to establish that out of all the pages audited in the Civil Registry’s record books for the period in question, only 0.58% contained records with possible irregularities, while the rest, 99.42%, did not contain the kind of inconsistencies found in the 0.58%. In the words of the Chair of the Central Electoral Board, this meant that “authorization had been given for issuance or copies of around 53,000 records that identify persons.” The records revealed the foreign-born parents represented a total of 103 nationalities. Of all the records audited, the country of origin of the foreign-born parents was Haiti in 68.45% of the cases; the United States in 3.93%; Spain in 2.84%, the Republic of China in 1.98%, and so on. 272 270. According to President Danilo Medina and Foreign Minister Andres Navarro, with enforcement of the provisions of Law 169-14 regarding persons born in the Dominican Republic both of whose parents are foreign nationals in an irregular migratory situation and who were in possession of some type of document issued by the Dominican State –in other words, those in Group A- and based on the findings of the audit done by the Central Electoral Board, the identification documents of approximately 55,000 will be accepted as valid and their Dominican nationality and that of their descendants will be recognized. 273 271. As for persons born to foreign-born parents with an irregular migratory situation and who, although born on Dominican soil, do not appear in the Civil Registry, i.e., 271 272 273 See also, Open Society Institute, Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the Compromised Right to Nationality, Report presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the occasion of its 140th Session, 2010, p. 6. Dominican Republic. Nota MP-RD-OEA 0653-15: Palabras del Doctor Roberto Rosario Márquez, Presidente de la Junta Central Electoral, el pasado 26 de mayo de 2015 en la Presentación de los Resultados de la Auditoría al Registro Civil en los años 1929 a 2007 Dominican Republic. [Note MP-RD-OEA 0653-15: Remarks made by Dr. Roberto Rosario Márquez, Chair of the Central Electoral Board, May 26, 2015, in presenting the findings of the audit done of the Registry Office from 1929 to 2007], June 8, 2015. See also, Dominican Republic, JCE, Informe de Auditoria al Registro Civil desde 1929 al 2007 [JCE, Report on the Audit of the Registry from 1929 to 2007], May 26, 2015. Dominican Republic, Discurso de Danilo Medina, Presidente de la República Dominicana, en el marco de la XLV Cumbre del Sistema de Integración Latinoamericano (SICA) [Address delivered by Danilo Medina, President of the Dominican Republic, at the XLV Summit of the Latin American Integration System (SICA)]. Guatemala, June 26, 2015; Address by Andres Navarro, Foreign Minister of the Dominican Council, before the OAS Permanent Council, Washington, June 30, 2015. Organization of American States | OAS