Action 6 (grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their
naturalization), Action 7, (on ensuring birth registration for prevention of
statelessness), Action 9 (accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions) and Action
10 (improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations);
4.
Taking into account that the UN Sustainable Development Goals for the
period until 2030 that has the principle of ‘leave no one behind’, and notably, its
target 16.9 aiming, which aims to achieve ‘legal identity for all, including birth
registration’4;
5.
Noting that the outcomes of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
(CRVS) Ministerial Conference in Asia and Pacific in November 20145, in which
Ministers of the Central Asian countries participated, adopted the Ministerial
Declaration ‘Get Everyone in the Picture’ and the accompanying Regional Action
Framework endorsing the goal of achieving universal and responsive CRVS
system by 2024;
6.
Recognizing that a number of children in Central Asia born to parents
without identity documents and status remain unregistered at birth and may
become stateless in the future; while children born to parents who are unable to
confer nationality will remain stateless;
7.
Noting the ongoing efforts of Central Asian States in strengthening
national legislation pertaining to the Civil Acts Registration to enhance
system for birth registration, to guarantee the right for every child born on
territory to be registered at birth even in the case that their parents
undocumented and/or stateless;
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8.
Recognizing that the quantitative and qualitative data on stateless
population, persons with undetermined nationality and birth registration including
late birth registration, need improvement in order to assess the scale of
statelessness and design measures to respond.
UN General Assembly, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 21 October 2015,
A/RES/70/1, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/57b6e3e44.html
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UNESCAP, Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific (10 December 2014),
UN Doc. E/ESCAP/MCCRVS/4, available at http://undocs.org/en/E/ESCAP/MCCRVS/4
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