The Conference adopted as its agenda the Provisional Agenda drawn up by the SecretaryGeneral (E/CONF. 17/2) excepting rule 5, which it decided to delete (E/CONF. 17/2/Add. th 1). At its 12 meeting the Conference decided to amend rule 7 (E/CONE 17/Add.2). The Conference appointed (i) a Drafting Committee on the Definition of the Term “Stateless Person”, which was composed of the President of the Conference and the representatives of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Israel and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; (ii) an Ad Hoc Committee on the Question of the Travel Document for Stateless Persons composed of the President of the Conference and the representatives of Belgium, Brazil, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia; and (iii) a Style Committee composed of the President of the Conference and the representatives of Belgium, France, Guatemala and the United Kingdom. The Conference used as the basis of its discussions the Draft Protocol Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Economic and Social Council on Refugees and Stateless Persons at its second session held in Geneva in 1950 and the provisions of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adopted by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons held at Geneva from 2 to 25 July 1951. The main working document for the Conference was a memorandum by the Secretary-General, document E/CONF. 17/3. The Conference decided by 12 votes to none with 3 abstentions, to prepare an independent convention dealing with the status of stateless persons rather than a protocol to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The Convention was adopted on 23 September 1954 by 19 votes to none with 2 abstentions, and opened for signature at the Headquarters of the United Nations. The English, French and Spanish texts of the Convention, which are equally authentic, are appended to this Final Act. 2. The Conference unanimously decided that the titles of the chapters and of the articles of the Convention are included for practical purposes and do not constitute an element of interpretation. 3. The Conference adopted the following recommendation by 16 votes to 1 with 4 abstentions: “The Conference “Recommends that each Contracting State, when it recognizes as valid the reasons for which a person has renounced the protection of the State of which he is a national, consider sympathetically the possibility of according to that person the treatment which the Convention accords to stateless persons; and “Recommends further that, in cases where the State in whose territory the person resides has decided to accord the treatment referred to above, other Contracting States also accord him the treatment provided for by the Convention.” 4. The Conference unanimously adopted the following resolution: “The Conference, “Being of the opinion that Article 33 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 is an expression of the generally accepted principle that no State should expel or return a person in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, “Has not found it necessary to include in the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons an article equivalent to Article 33 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951.“