Furthermore on Action 1, in August, a bill seeking the recognition of the Maragoli community as one of the indigenous communities under the Ugandan Constitution was tabled before the Parliament by a member of the National Assembly. The bill underwent its first reading and was referred to the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee for consideration. It will undergo scrutiny by the committee members, executive branch officials, UNHCR, and members of the public before the report is tabled back to parliament for the second reading. In line with Action 6, Grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization, on 1 September, Kazakhstan adopted a Statelessness Determination Procedure (SDP). The new SDP is accessible to any person claiming to be stateless, regardless of whether they possess valid identity documents or are lawfully residing in the country. The new procedure includes a number of procedural guarantees and the burden of proof is shared between the Government and applicant. The SDP will improve identification and protection of stateless persons, and contribute to reducing statelessness. Also in line with Action 1, on July 16, the President of the Dominican Republic promulgated an executive decree concerning the Dominican nationality to 750 persons of Haitian descent who applied to naturalize according to Law 169-14. All 750 persons had been affected by a 2013 Constitutional Court judgment depriving them of nationality. UNHCR issued a press release on this development. Also in line with Action 6, on 2 September, Côte d’Ivoire became the first country on the African continent to adopt a Statelessness Determination Procedure. The adoption of the SDP is in line with Strategic Objective 3.1 of the ECOWAS Banjul Action Plan against Statelessness and the country���s National Action Plan to Address Statelessness. A 2019 study identified 1.6 million people as stateless or at risk of statelessness in Côte d’Ivoire. The adoption of the SDP is a significant milestone which will help protect stateless people pending a nationality solution by allowing them to access basic rights. With regard to Action 2, Ensure that no child is born stateless, on July 29, the Parliament of the Republic of Albania approved a new citizenship law which contains a number of positive provisions. The law uses the definition of a stateless person in the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and provides for an unrestricted safeguard to grant Albanian citizenship to all children born in Albania who would otherwise be stateless. The new law also removes the requirement of birth in the country for naturalization of stateless persons. The law is expected to be published in the Official Gazette in coming weeks. With regard to Action 6, the Russian Federation is in the process of adopting a law which will introduce identification documents for stateless persons. The draft law passed its first reading in the State Duma, the lower Chamber of the Parliament, and is expected to be signed by the President this fall. The identification documents will allow stateless persons who meet certain criteria to reside and work legally and to apply for temporary stay in Russia. It is expected that thousands of stateless persons and persons with undetermined nationality will be able to regularize their stay and eventually their residency status in the Russian Federation. 5