lawfully residing on their territory in accordance with international human
rights law; and to consider, as appropriate, facilitating the naturalization
of habitually and lawfully residing stateless persons in accordance with
national legislation;
(v) E
ncourages UNHCR to implement programmes, at the request of
concerned States, which contribute to protecting and assisting stateless
persons, in particular by assisting stateless persons to access legal
remedies to redress their stateless situation and in this context, to
work with NGOs in providing legal counselling and other assistance as
appropriate;
(w) C
alls on States not to detain stateless persons on the sole basis of
their being stateless and to treat them in accordance with international
human rights law and also calls on States Parties to the 1954 Convention
relating to the Status of Stateless Persons to fully implement its
provisions;
ANNEXES
(x) Requests UNHCR to further improve the training of its own staff and those
of other United Nations agencies on issues relating to statelessness
to enable UNHCR to provide technical advice to States Parties on the
implementation of the 1954 Convention so as to ensure consistent
implementation of its provisions.
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