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Elimination or Reduction of Future Statelessness

A/RES/896(IX)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1955.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1955–1957
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/1107(XI)
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  • 1955A/RES/896(IX)Elimination or reduction of future statelessness

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 topics
ConferencesInformation DisseminationInternational LawSignatures, Accessions, RatificationsStatelessnessTreatiesWritten Communications

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
49
General Assembly - 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.
4 December 1954.

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