. Identification re ention and reduction o state essness Georgia (2014 and 2011), Lithuania (2013), Montenegro (2013), Ukraine (2013), Bulgaria (2012), Portugal (2012), Moldova (2012), Turkmenistan (2012 and 2011), Croatia (2011), and Serbia (2011). (See Annex I for an overview of States party to the 1954 and the 1961 Conventions among OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation. See Annexes II and III for Model instruments of accession to both Conventions). The OSCE and UNHCR have served as a platform for the exchange of information and good practices among participating States on statelessness-related issues. A recent example includes a Regional Conference on Accession to the Statelessness Conventions, held in September 2016, where governmental representatives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan exchanged detailed information on legislation, procedures, broader migration challenges, national security issues, issuance of documentation, and others, with representatives from Turkmenistan, Georgia, and Moldova, which had already acceded to the Conventions. At the country level, in August 2016, Tajik authorities deliberated about acceding to the Statelessness Conventions at a roundtable organized by UNHCR. Representatives of the Moldovan and the Georgian governments were invited to share their experiences and the challenges their countries encountered before and after accession to the Conventions.97 Good practice: Solving a major situation of statelessness – Kyrgyz Republic In the early 1990s, Kyrgyzstan was one of the primary destinations for refugees from Tajikistan, who also became stateless because they left Tajikistan before the country adopted its first nationality law. Facilitating the naturalization of around 10,000 of these refugees between 2004 and 2007 was a major achievement in ensuring durable solutions for refugees through local integration, as well as in resolving a protracted statelessness situation. Recognizing that many individuals had yet to replace their USSR passports and confirm their citizenship, Kyrgyzstan adopted the Law on Citizenship of the Kyrgyz Republic in 2007. The new citizenship law created several 67