Elimination or reduction of future statelessness

IX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
896. Elimination or reduction of future statelessness

The General Assembly, Considering that the International Law Commission included[1] the topic "Nationality, including statelessness" in its list of topics of international law provisionally selected for codification, Considering that, at the request[2] of the Economic and Social Council, the International Law Commission has given priority to this item, Noting that the International Law Commission, at its fifth session in 1953, proposed[3] a draft Convention on the Elimination of Future Statelessness and a draft Convention on the Reduction of Future Statelessness, and invited Governments to submit their comments thereon, Considering that comments were received from fifteen Governments, which comments were published in an annex to the report[4] of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixth session, Considering that the Economic and Social Council has approved[5] the principles of the two draft Conventions, Considering that the International Law Commission revised, in the light of the comments received from Governments, the above-mentioned draft Conventions and submitted[6] the revised drafts to the General Assembly, Recognizing the importance of reducing and, if possible, eliminating future statelessness by international agreement,

1. Expresses its appreciation for the work of the International Law Commission in this field;

2. Expresses its desire that an international conference of plenipotentiaries be convened to conclude a convention for the reduction or elimination of future statelessness as soon as at least twenty States have communicated to the Secretary-General their willingness to co-operate in such a conference;

3. Requests the Secretary-General:

(a) To communicate, together with the present resolution, the revised draft Conventions to Member States and to each non-member State which is or hereafter becomes a member of one or more of the specialized agencies of the United Nations or which is or hereafter becomes a Party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice;

(b) To fix the exact time and place for the conference, to issue invitations to those States to which the revised draft Conventions have been communicated and to take all other measures for the convening of the conference and for its operation in case the condition stated in paragraph 2 above is met;

(c) To report on the matter to the General Assembly at its eleventh session;

4. Requests Governments of States to which reference is made in paragraph 3, sub-paragraph (a) above, to give early consideration to the merits of a multilateral convention on the elimination or reduction of future statelessness.

504th plenary meeting,
4 December 1954.


[1] See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fourth Session, Supplement No. 10, para. 16. [2] See Economic and Social Council, resolution 319 B (XI), section III. [3] See Official Records of the General Assembly, Eighth Session, Supplement No. 9, chapter IV. [4] Ibid., Ninth Session, Supplement No. 9. [5] See Economic and Social Council, resolution 526 B (XVII). [6] See Official Records of the General Assembly, Ninth Session, Supplement No. 9.
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