The government representatives from Central Asia agree to take the following actions by the end of the #IBelong Campaign in 2024: I. Present information on progress and plans to address any remaining challenges through the High-Level Segment on statelessness in October 2019. II. Develop and implement national action plans that set out detailed strategies to end and prevent statelessness. III. Undertake identification exercises in the whole of their territories in order to map the full extent of statelessness and to link the identification of stateless persons to solutions. IV. Facilitate acquisition or confirmation of nationality to those with entitlement to it in order to end the known cases of statelessness in their territories. V. Establish a legal mechanism by which all children born in the territory are registered at birth and have access to a nationality. If otherwise stateless, to have the nationality of country of birth. VI. Adopt statelessness determination procedures that are in line with international standards and which lead to a legal status for stateless persons and guarantees their enjoyment of basic human rights and facilitated naturalization. VII. Amend legislation to allow for birth registration of children born to parents of undetermined nationality or that lack documentation. VIII. Step-up efforts related to acceding to the Statelessness Conventions and bringing national legislation in line with the Conventions’ provisions. IX. Include statelessness relevant questions in their upcoming national population censuses and improve quantitative and qualitative data through other data collection methods like civil registration data, targeted surveys and studies.

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