Forthcoming in the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (27) his conclusions, the Commission discussed two possible legal instruments to address statelessness. One was a draft convention on the elimination of statelessness, which included inter alia an unconditional right to acquire the nationality of the country where one was born, if they would otherwise be stateless, and a peremptory prohibition on deprivation of nationality leading to statelessness. The other was a convention on the reduction of future cases of statelessness, which articulated some rules on the prevention of statelessness while expressly recognizing that its total elimination was not possible. The latter also incorporated a qualified obligation on states to grant nationality to individuals born stateless in their territory, as well as some exceptions to the prohibition of nationality deprivation. The discussions that followed during the ILC’s fifth session once again confirmed how divisive the topic was.60 Yet, in the end, the Commission managed to amend and adopt the two draft conventions on first reading and to submit them to the consideration of states, whose main concerns were the restrictions to their discretion in this area and the conflicts between some of the draft provisions and their legislations.61 The draft conventions would be further reviewed during the ILC’s sixth session, later adopted, and finally submitted to the UNGA for further action in 1954. Cordova would be elected to the ICJ in the following year, where he would later dwell on some of these matters as a judge in the Nottebohm (Liechtenstein v Guatemala) case. His proposed draft conventions, however, would continue to be discussed at the UNGA, which in due course requested the Secretary-General to convene a conference on the elimination or reduction of statelessness in 1959. In the end, states took the ILC Draft Convention on the Reduction of Future Statelessness as a basis for their work since it focused on preventing and reducing cases of statelessness at birth. Apart from the contrasting views on which criteria of UN ILC, ‘Documents of the Fifth Session, Including the Report of the Commission to the General Assembly’ in Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1953, vol. II, UN Doc. A/CN. 4/8ER. A/1953/Add.1, at 170197 and 202–280. 61 UN ILC, ‘Documents of the Sixth Session, Including the Report of the Commission to the General Assembly’ in Yearbook of the International Law Commission 1954, vol. II, UN Doc. A/CN.4/SER.A/1954/Add.l, at 163– 173. 60 16 Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4816199