Implementation of the Global Action Plan With respect to Action 1 (Resolve existing major situations of statelessness), notable progress took place in Central Asia. As of October 2018, the region passed an important milestone of 50,000 resolved cases since the launch of the #IBelong Campaign in 2014. In Turkmenistan, 735 formerly stateless persons were granted citizenship during a ceremony in Ashgabat on 1 October, following promulgation of a presidential decree. In Tajikistan, UNHCR supported the Government in identification and reduction of statelessness activities in seven districts. By the end of 2018, most of the 31,500 persons that were identified through this project will have had their statelessness resolved. On Action 2 (Ensure that no child is born stateless), in October, a judge in the north of Côte d’Ivoire granted nationality to three foundlings on the basis of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, to which the country acceded in 2013. Two more foundlings are expected to obtain their nationality certificates before the end of the year. This is a remarkable achievement, as it is the first judicial decision on behalf of foundlings, one of the main profiles of stateless persons in Côte d’Ivoire. Fotima (9), Zukhro (9), Bibikhadicha (7), Beniamin (5), and five-month-old Bibioisha received their birth certificates after their mother Jumagul was recognized as a citizen of Tajikistan. ©UNHCR/N. Akbaralieva 7