No. 68 (XLIII) – 1992
(y) Reiterates its call to States and relevant international agencies actively to
explore and promote measures favourable to stateless persons and, recognizing
the absense of an international body with a general mandate for these persons,
calls upon the High Commissioner to continue her efforts generally on behalf of
stateless individuals and to work actively to promote adherence to and
implementation of the international instruments relating to statelessness.
No. 65 (XLII) – 1991
(r) Reaffirms Conclusion No. 50 (1) (XXXIX), reiterates its call to States actively
to explore and promote measures favourable to stateless persons, including
accession to the international instruments pertaining to stateless persons, and in
this connection believes it would be useful for United Nations human rights bodies
to address statelessness issues, including the problem of arbitrary deprivation of
nationality and the content of the right to a nationality;
No. 50 (XXXIX) – 1988
(l) Noted the close connection between the problems of refugees and of stateless
persons and invited States actively to explore and promote measures favourable
to stateless persons, including accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the
Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction
Statelessness, as well as the adoption of legislation to protect the basic rights of
stateless persons and to eliminate sources of statelessness;
No. 47 (XXXVIII) – 1987
(g) Expressed its concern over the increasing number of cases of statelessness
among refugee children;
No. 18 (XXXI) – 1980
(i) Called upon the governments concerned to provide repatriating refugees with
the necessary travel documents, visas, entry permits and transportation facilities
and, if refugees have lost their nationality, to arrange for such nationality to be
restored in accordance with national legislation;
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