l Panama was the first State to accede the 1954 and 1961 Statelessness Conventions after UNHCR launched a campaign promoting accession to commemorate the anniversaries of the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. l At the ministerial-level meeting held in Geneva in December 2011, Argentina and Colombia pledged to ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, while Honduras, Peru, Nicaragua and Paraguay pledged to ratify both this Convention and the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. (Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Uruguay are already signatories to both Conventions.) Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay have each made commitments to establish national statelessness determination procedures. UNHCR / A. CONDE OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS An emotional moment when the two elder children of this Senegalese refugee family resettled in Argentina are reunited with their parents and siblings. UNHCR Global Report 2011 339

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