protection through such a mechanism, the status awarded on recognition shall include, at the very least, permanent residence with facilitated access to nationality.110 D. S  TATUS FOR STATELESS PERSONS NOT COVERED BY THE 1954 CONVENTION 58 166. Many individuals who meet the stateless person definition in the 1954 Convention live in countries that are not party to this treaty. Nevertheless, the standards in the Convention and the practice of States parties may prove helpful to such countries in devising and implementing strategies to address statelessness in their territories, and regulating the status of stateless persons. In particular, States which are not yet party to the Convention may take note of the practice of providing identity papers and travel documents to stateless persons, measures which have already been adopted in several other non-Contracting States. In addition, all States would need to comply with their obligations under international human rights law, such as protection against arbitrary detention (Article 9(1) of the ICCPR) and, in the case of persons stateless in situ, the right to enter and remain in one’s “own country” (Article 12(4) of the ICCPR).111 167. De facto stateless persons also fall outside of the protection of the 1954 Convention.112 Nevertheless, as de facto stateless persons are unable to return immediately to their country of nationality, providing them at the very minimum with temporary permission to stay promotes a degree of stability. Thus, States may consider giving them a status similar to that recommended above in paragraph 159 for stateless persons who have the possibility of securing protection elsewhere. In many cases an interim measure of this nature will prove sufficient as return will become possible 110 Where States have created stateless populations in their territory, they may well be unwilling to introduce statelessness determination procedures or grant stateless persons the status recommended. In such cases UNHCR’s efforts to secure solutions for the population in question may go beyond advocacy to technical advice and operational support for initiatives aimed at recognising the link between such individuals and the State through the grant of nationality. 111 Please see further paragraphs 164-165 above. 112 As noted in paragraph 7 above, there is no internationally accepted definition of de facto statelessness. According to recent efforts to define the term, de facto stateless persons possess a nationality, but are unable, or for valid reasons are unwilling, to avail themselves of the protection of a State of nationality. Please see further Section II.A. of the Prato Conclusions, note 4 above, which proposes the following operational definition for the term: De facto stateless persons are persons outside the country of their nationality who are unable or, for valid reasons, are unwilling to avail themselves of the protection of that country. Protection in this sense refers to the right of diplomatic protection exercised by a State of nationality in order to remedy an internationally wrongful act against one of its nationals, as well as diplomatic and consular protection and assistance generally, including in relation to return to the State of nationality.