Treaty Event Treaty Event During the Treaty Event convened at the HLS, Angola acceded to the 1954 Convention and the 1961 Convention, and Colombia ratified the 1954 Convention. Shortly following the HLS, Malta and North Macedonia fulfilled the pledges they made to accede to the 1954 Convention and 1961 Convention, respectively – Malta became party to the 1954 Convention on 11 December 2019, and North Macedonia became party to the 1961 Convention on 3 January 2020. This made the total number of parties to the 1954 Convention 94, and the total number of parties to the 1961 Convention 75. Between the beginning of 2011 (the year of the intergovernmental event at Ministerial level facilitated by UNHCR to mark the anniversaries of the 1951 Convention and the 1961 Convention) and the HLS, 26 States became party to the 1954 Convention and 36 States became party to the 1961 Convention. Between the launch of the #IBelong Campaign and the commencement of the HLS, 8 States (Chile, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Turkey) became party to the 1954 Convention, and 12 States (Argentina, Belize, Burkina Faso, Chile, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Italy, Luxembourg, Mali, Sierra Leone, Peru, Spain) became party to the 1961 Convention. Parties to the Statelessness Conventions 94 100 83 80 75 71 1954 Convention 1961 Convention 61 60 40 20 36 42 15 0 Pre-1990 12 2011 November 2014 (Launch of the #IBelong Campaign) January 2020 U N H C R > H I G H - L E V E L S E G M E N T O N S T A T E L E S S N E S S : R E S U LT S A N D H I G H L I G H T S