The United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on State-lessness today concluded consideration of how to eliminate statelessness by reducing the number of stateless persons through naturalization in the countries where they live and other measures.
The committee adopted a resolution urging its parent body, the Economic and Social Council, to call upon member states of the U.N. to re-examine their nationality laws with a view to reducing, as far as possible, cases of statelessness which arise from the operation of such laws.
The Council was also asked by the committee “to invite member states to contribute to the reduction of the number of stateless persons by extending to stateless persons in their territory the opportunity to be naturalized.” The conclusion of an international agreement for the purpose of eliminating statelessness was also recommended by the committee.
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