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.