THE PROBLEM OF STATELESSNESS IN UKRAINE AND THE WAYS OF ADDRESSING IT persons without residence registration, as required by EU Visa Liberalization Action Plan for Ukraine37. The Procedure for execution and issuance of a Ukrainian citizen passport. In this Procedure, it is necessary to make the following amendments: 1) regulate the possibility to issue a Ukrainian citizen passport without a birth certificate if such a certificate is absent but when identity has been established; 2) provide for a possibility to exchange a USSR citizen passport for a Ukrainian citizen passport; 3) delete the provision on withdrawal of Ukrainian citizen passports from convicts. After the legislative reform, it would be reasonable to carry out an information campaign with outreach activities on the amendments both for all groups of stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness and for migration service staff on the ground. To maintain a high level of awareness on the provisions of the legislation on statelessness, it would be worth organizing systematic training and methodological workshops on implementation of the Ukrainian legislation relevant to address statelessness. In providing such workshops and trainings, it is reasonable to rely upon the non-governmental sector. V. Conclusions The analysis of the situation of stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness in Ukraine showed that the real scale of this problem is known neither to governmental bodies nor to members of non-governmental organizations who are often the only ones providing legal aid to them. As a first step towards solving the problem of statelessness, it would be recommended to determine its scale and, at the same time, categorize the stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness residing in the territory of Ukraine and determine their location. An efficient approach could consist of a campaign involving experts from the State Migration Service and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, sociologists, lawyers and social workers of human rights organizations who will work with the above-mentioned categories on the ground, carrying out necessary interviews and surveys. At the same time, it is necessary to initiate, as soon as possible, both adoption of a number of new regulations and amendments to existing ones in order to harmonize the existing legislation with international standards and to properly implement the UN Statelessness Conventions that Ukraine acceded to in early 2013. A responsibility consists of adopting a procedure for the determination 37 The text if available at http://novisa.com.ua/upload/file/EU-Ukraine-Action-Plan.pdf 42