• Conclusion No. 68 (XLIII) – 1992 http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3ae68c6e1c.html The Executive Committee, […] (y) Reiterates its call to States and relevant international agencies actively to explore and promote measures favorable to stateless persons and, recognizing the absence of an international body with a general mandate for these persons, calls upon the High Commissioner to continue her efforts generally on behalf of stateless individuals and to work actively to promote adherence to and implementation of the international instruments relating to statelessness. • Conclusion No. 65 (XLII) – 1991 http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3ae68c404.html The Executive Committee, […] (r) Reaffirms Conclusion No. 50 (1) (XXXIX), reiterates its call to States actively to explore and promote measures favorable to stateless persons, including accession to the international instruments pertaining to stateless persons, and in this connection believes it would be useful for United Nations human rights bodies to address statelessness issues, including the problem of arbitrary deprivation of nationality and the content of the right to a nationality; • Conclusion No. 50 (XXXIX) – 1988 http://www.unhcr.org/excom/EXCOM/3ae68c9510.html The Executive Committee, […] (l) Noted the close connection between the problems of refugees and of stateless persons and invited States actively to explore and promote measures favorable to stateless persons, including accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction Statelessness, as well as the adoption of legislation to protect the basic rights of stateless persons and to eliminate sources of statelessness; 7

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