statelessness, as applicable, and to create or strengthen the technical agencies responsible for overseeing their proper implementation. 3. To urge member states, with the technical support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to follow up on the commitments assumed at the Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Geneva, 2011) and on such other international commitments as they may have adopted in this area. 4. To urge member states, without prejudice to their ratification of or accession to the international instruments on statelessness, to consider amending or adopting, as applicable, domestic laws to comprehensively regulate all matters relating to the identification and protection of stateless people and their appropriate documentation, and to include in their nationality laws appropriate safeguards to prevent and reduce new cases of statelessness and to eliminate those that already exist. 5. To instruct the Inter-American Juridical Committee to draft, in consultation with the member states, a set of Guidelines on the Protection of Stateless Persons, in accordance with the existing international standards on the topic. 6. To urge member states, in accordance with their domestic laws and, when applicable, in collaboration with and with the support of the UNHCR, to enforce the legal and practical measures necessary to overcome difficulties in making entries in civil registries, establishing or strengthening existing institutions responsible for civil records, building their capacity, and ensuring data security and confidentiality. 7. To ask member states and the international community to assist and support the strengthening and consolidation of the UNHCR’s programs on the identification, prevention, and reduction of statelessness and the international protection of stateless persons, so that it may continue to monitor the implementation of international instruments on statelessness and support efforts to eradicate statelessness. 8. To reaffirm the importance of international cooperation in the provision of appropriate technical and advisory services to prepare and implement legislation regarding nationality and effective protection to stateless persons. 9. To instruct the Permanent Council, through the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs and with support from the Department of International Law of the General Secretariat and such technical and financial cooperation as may be provided by the UNHCR, to continue emphasizing the problems of statelessness in its promotional and training activities and to organize, during the first quarter of 2015, an international course on statelessness for members of the permanent missions of the member states, the staff of the General Secretariat, and other interested parties. 10. To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth regular session on the implementation of this resolution. Execution of the activities envisaged in this resolution will be