APPENDIX II Draft Protocol Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons Prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems During its Second Session The Contracting States, Considering that the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees dated - deals only with refugees, whether stateless or not, who are the special concern of the United Nations, as evinced in numerous resolutions of the General Assembly, and Considering, moreover, that there are many stateless persons not covered by the said Convention who do not enjoy any national protection and, pending a more special solution of the problem of such persons, it appears desirable to improve the status of these persons; Now therefore undertake to apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of Articles 2 to 4, 6 to 11, 12 (para. 1), 13, 14 (para. 1), 15 to 23, 24 (paras. 1 and 2), 27, 29 and 31 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, to stateless persons to whom that Convention does not apply. This Protocol shall not apply to persons referred to in paragraph 5 of part B of Article 1 of the said Convention. The standard final clauses follow. APPENDIX III Final Act of the United Nations Conference on the Status of Stateless Persons 1. The Economic and Social Council, on 26 April 1954 at its seventeenth session, by resolution 526 A (XVII) decided that a second conference of plenipotentiaries should be convened to revise in the light of the provisions of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees on 28 July 1951 and of the observations made by Governments the draft Protocol relating to the Status of Stateless Persons prepared by an Ad Hoc Committee of the Economic and Social Council in 1950 and to open the instrument for signature. The Conference met at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York from 13 September to 23 September 1954. The Governments of the following twenty-seven States were represented by delegates all of whom submitted satisfactory credentials or other communications of appointment authorizing them to participate in the Conference: Australia Iran Belgium Israel Brazil Liechtenstein Cambodia Monaco Colombia Netherlands Costa Rica Norway Denmark Philippines Ecuador Sweden El Salvador Switzerland