Chapter III.
PLEDGES
mestic implementation of the above-mentioned conventions, including by
updating the 1965 Nationality Code, which is still in force.
The Ministry will be sure to seek the assistance of UNHCR as regards the
technical details of this process of updating the Nationality Code.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, for African Integration, for Francophonie
and Beninese Abroad thanks the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees in Geneva for his kind cooperation and takes this opportunity to
renew the assurances of its high esteem.
EXCERPT FROM NATIONAL STATEMENT
The work to be done for Benin to implement both conventions on statelessness will include conducting a full-scale sociological study combined
with the general census of population and housing, planned for 2012, in
order to have reliable data on stateless persons or people at risk of statelessness living in Benin.
BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF)
EXCERPTS FROM NATIONAL STATEMENT
Voluntary commitments of the Plurinational State of Bolivia:
• To strengthen national legislation to achieve full compliance
with the commitments assumed as a State Party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, through the adoption of a ‘National Law on the Protection
of Refugees’.
• To continue with and multiply training on the rights of refugees
and asylum-seekers for government officials working on the
subject.
• To continue providing refugees and asylum-seekers access to the
same basic services enjoyed by Bolivian citizens, that allows them
to enjoy their economic, social and cultural rights.
• To ensure implementation of the ‘National law against racism
and all forms of discrimination’, in force since October 2010 and
which protects every inhabitant of the country against discrimination and does not recognize any immunity, exemptions or
privileges.
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