Chapter III. PLEDGES Considering the positive results obtained with the Solidarity Resettlement Programme in Paraguay, the Government is committed to increase the number of refugees resettled in the country. PERU PLEDGE FORM The Government of Peru pledges to: 1. Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 2. Encourage the development of a draft national law that enables the necessary regulation of statelessness issues. 3. Create conditions to facilitate employment possibilities for asylum-seekers through the regularization in the Ministry of Labour of a procedure for approving working contracts and the establishment of a procedure allowing the issuance of driver’s licenses. 4. Generate the channels needed to facilitate access to the public health system (SIS – Sistemas públicos de salud) for refugees and asylum-seekers. PHILIPPINES (THE) PLEDGE FORM The Government of the Republic of the Philippines pledges to: 1. Continue to develop the policy and operational framework to address statelessness after the ratification of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and to strengthen implementation of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, with the support of, and in cooperation with, UNHCR. 2. Issue machine readable travel documents to refugees and stateless persons in accordance with Philippine law. 3. Continue the study of statelessness in the Philippines and among its nationals that are at risk of statelessness, in continuation of efforts initiated in 2011. 4. Initiate the process of accession to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 105

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