ANNEX I Notes 1 This category covers de jure and de facto stateless persons, including persons who are unable to establish their nationality. 2 The great majority of these people have yet to have their Bosnian nationality formally recognized. 3 It has yet to be determined whether the statelessness situation has remained a significant problem after the November 2004 Congolese Nationality Law was enacted. Almost all people recorded as being stateless have permanent residence and enjoy more rights than foreseen in the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 5 Includes people deprived of their citizenship under previous nationality legislation, stateless individuals with permanent residence who are recognized as "stateless foreigners" and other stateless persons resident in Greece. 4 6 Figure refers to the end of 2008; no data available for 2009. 7 11,843 stateless persons acquired Kyrgyz nationality or had it confirmed during the year. 8 The Republic of Latvia enacted a Law on Stateless Persons on 17 February 2004, which replaced the Law on the Status of Stateless Persons in the Republic of Latvia of 18 February 1999, and which determines the legal status of persons who are not considered as citizens by the legislation of any State and whose status is not determined by the 25th April 1995 Law (quoted below). 9 The Republic of Latvia, by the 25th April 1995 Law on the Status of Those Former USSR Citizens who are not Citizens of Latvia or of Any Other State, granted a transitional legal status to permanently residing persons (non-citizens) entitling them to a set of rights and obligations beyond the minimum rights prescribed by the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 10 Figure includes one individual from the Czech Republic and an estimated number of individuals who are stateless, including people who are unable to establish their nationality from among the following populations: Indian community, children of Filipino refugees, and children of undocumented migrants. Estimate is based on NGO and media reports, some citing offical sources. 11 The great majority of these people have yet to have their Montenegrin nationality formally recognized. 12 Muslim residents of northern Rakhine State. 13 Estimated number of persons who remained stateless after the issuance of approximately 2.6 million Citizenship Certificates in 2007. 14 UNHCR estimate provided in the absence of comprehensive Government statistics on the number of stateless persons in the Russian Federation. According to figures from the Russian Federation Federal Migration Service, 42,000 stateless persons were granted Russian citizenship in 2009 and a total of 228,091 persons were granted citizenship between 2006 and 2009. 15 The great majority of these people have yet to have their Serbian nationality formally recognized. A large number of stateless persons benefited from acquisition/confirmation of Sri Lankan nationality since 2003 but information gathered by UNHCR in the field indicates that several thousand persons remain stateless. 16 17 Figures are based on estimates from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. 18 The figure is based on data from the last population census in Tajikistan in 2000 and includes 326 persons officially registered by the Government of Tajikistan as being stateless. 19 The figure is based on publicly available estimates. The great majority of this population are people who are yet to have their nationality of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia formally recognized, as well as those who are long term habitual residents without effective citizenship. 20 21 Figure refers to the year 2000; no data available for subsequent years. 22 The figure is based on an extrapolation from the number of stateless persons registered in the 2001 census in Ukraine. It includes 6,490 stateless persons who were registered with the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior at the end of 2009. 23 The UAE has acknowledged 10,000 persons to be stateless while other sources put the total stateless population in the country at 20,000 or more. The Government undertook a registration exercise during 2008 and naturalized a small number of individuals with the remaining decisions still pending at the end of 2008. 24 Figure refers to the end of 2005; no data available for subsequent years. 25