AG/RES. 2826 (XLIV-O/14) PREVENTION AND REDUCTION OF STATELESSNESS AND PROTECTION OF STATELESS PERSONS IN THE AMERICAS (Adopted at the second plenary session, held on June 4, 2014) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, RECALLING resolutions AG/RES. 1693 (XXIX-O/99), AG/RES. 1762 (XXX-O/00), AG/RES. 1832 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1892 (XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1971 (XXXIII-O/03), AG/RES. 2047 (XXXIV-O/04), AG/RES. 2511 (XXXIX-O/09), AG/RES. 2599 (XL-O/10), AG/RES. 2665 (XLI-O/11), and AG/RES. 2787 (XLIII-O/13) on the issue of prevention and reduction of statelessness and protection of stateless persons in the Americas; CONSIDERING that at the ministerial meeting of the United Nations member states on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 7 and 8, 2011, the participating states recognized that “the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons are the principal international statelessness instruments, which provide important standards for the prevention and resolution of statelessness and safeguards for the protection of stateless people” and considered becoming a party to them, where appropriate, and/or strengthening their policies that prevent and reduce statelessness; EMPHASIZING that on that occasion, several member states formally adopted specific commitments with regard to their accession to the applicable international instruments and to the adoption of measures to establish national mechanisms for determining statelessness; CONSIDERING ALSO that in the Brasilia Declaration on the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons in the Americas of November 11, 2010, it was resolved to “urge countries in the Americas to consider acceding to the international instruments on statelessness, reviewing their national legislation to prevent and reduce situations of statelessness, and strengthening national mechanisms for comprehensive birth registration”; EMPHASIZING that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and that, as part of the commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees (Cartagena+30), the member states are considering the adoption of a new strategic framework with which to promote the protection of stateless people and refugees over the coming decade; NOTING that the legislation of some member states considers that recognition of stateless persons is a declaratory, humanitarian, and apolitical act, granted in accordance with the principles of due process; CONVINCED that statelessness is a serious global humanitarian problem that calls for broad international cooperation and the development of related programs, based on the recognition of the fundamental responsibility of states to prevent and reduce statelessness; RECOGNIZING that 17 member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) are parties to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and that 12 are parties to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and noting Nicaragua’s recent accession to both international instruments, Jamaica’s accession to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and Peru’s adherence to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;