Code: Draft Resolution

Committee: General Assembly

Subject: Stateless Persons
Sponsors: Thailand, Libya, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway,
Germany, Sweden, Costa Rica, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, Liberia, Romania, Pakistan,
Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, New Zealand
Signatories: Syria, Burkina Faso, Austria, Ethiopia, Algeria, Brazil, Tunisia, Pakistan, Kenya,
Canada, China, ROK, Ivory Coast, Palestine, Yemen, Morocco, Iceland, India, Algeria,
Argentina, Chile, Finland, Hungary, Congo, Poland.
The General Assembly,
Recognizing that peacekeeping and the protection of human rights, international humanitarian
law, peace and freedom are essential to maintain harmony and trustful relationship between
nations,
Deeply convinced that all nations efforts to help stateless people will give access to
development to these vulnerable groups which suffer the consequences to be out of any
citizenship, therefore access to basic needs,
Expecting the cooperation of all the international community with all kinds of effort to help and
include the stateless population into the social and economic system,
Alarmed by the exclusion of stateless persons, and systematically violated human rights and
international humanitarian law, the General Assembly:
1. Affirms that stateless persons are defined according to the Article 1, 1954, and the 1961
convention, and considering that a stateless person is a person that does not hold any type of
documentation, cannot prove to be born in a specific country, lost citizenship of the country
of origin, have no state or country to return to and are not able to apply for any other
citizenship, but excluding persons who let go of their nationality by choice;
2. Urges for the creation of a United Nations Agency named United Nations Agency for
Stateless Persons (UNASP) under the UNHCR;

3. Suggests that a non-governmental organization is formed to accompany the efforts of

UNASP;
4. Notes that UNASP will consist of globally coordinated local branches, called United Nation
Registration Center (UNRC), that depend on UNASP;
5. Confirms that UNCR will provide resources to allow registration of identification free of
charge to grant access to health services, education, work and other basic humanitarian
services;
6. Confirms further that UNCR will observe military status in United Nations member states
who are currently in war;
7. Affirms that the UNASP and UNCR will mainly rely on financial funding from the United
Nations to support the implementation of structures to tackle the problem of statelessness;
8. Suggests that funding is mainly provided by the United Nations, but that funds can also be
raised from alternative sources as the European Union and non-governmental organizations;
9. Urges countries to review application processes for citizenship and implement a second
application system for temporary residency by:
a. Ensuring that temporary residency allows access to health service, education, social
security systems, work and other basic humanitarian services;
b. Confirming that temporary residency is granted to stateless refugees of war, stateless
political refugees, stateless persons who already lived in a country for a prolonged
period of time and stateless persons whose origin is unclear;
c. Suggesting that an identification system for all stateless persons is developed in United
Nations member and non-member states;
d. Promoting a distinction between stateless persons who are allowed to work and who are
not allowed to work, discriminating between stateless persons before school age, in
school age and after school age;
e. Encouraging countries to lower the number of years stateless persons must have stayed
in a country before gaining citizenship and/or lower application fees that must be paid
to gain citizenship;

10. Promotes the provision of medical services and basic humanitarian services by nongovernmental organizations to stateless persons;
11. Encourages the creation of educational resources for stateless persons by:
a. Ensuring access to school education;
b. Promoting access to language training and vocational training;
c. Creating courses to enhance the integration process of stateless persons such as cultural
courses, language courses or basic law courses;
12. Encourages United Nations member states and non-member states to educate stateless
persons to recognize their rights in order to enable them to raise their voices to gain these
rights which they are supposed to have with the assistance of UNASP;
13. Suggests education of the United Nations member states and non-member states citizens to
gain acceptance for immigrants by implementing the Stateless Persons Awareness Day;
14. Encourages developed countries to be more willing to accept a higher number of stateless
persons and providing them with basic humanitarian services at a regional level;
15. Suggests countries who have a high requirement to recruit labor workers with specific
abilities to accept stateless persons who currently reside in other countries and hold these
specific abilities as citizens;
16. Urges for the implementation of birth registration systems by countries with the help of
non-governmental organizations to allow granting citizenship based on birth where national
laws allow for granting citizenship based on birth;
17. Suggests that countries review national law in order to grant citizenship to children of
citizens of a country independent of the parents gender;
18. Encourages all United Nations member states to continue promoting the inter-agency
coordination and the exchange of multilateral communication of counter-terrorism (CTC) at
the regional and international level;
19. Invites to reinforce and increase the number of established counter terrorism units and
enhance cooperation with regional and global experts;

20. Calls upon United Nations member states and upon non-member states to cooperate with
Interpol in all concerns about terrorist group activities to prevent future attacks;
21. Emphasizes a fundamental increase of measures against illegal immigration to prevent
traffic of raw material that can be potentially used to engineer mass destruction weapons;
22. Calls upon United Nations organizations, regional organizations and non-governmental
organizations to participate in the process of implementing named structures in order to
address the problem of statelessness.