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Items 14.1(2)-14.1(3)

International Protocol relating to a certain

Case of Statelessness, The Hague 1930

The Special Protocol Concerning Statelessness,

The Hague, 1930

1.

The

Protocol relating to a Certain Case Of

('The Protocol') was concluded at the Hague

Statelessness

on 12 April 1930 and entered into force on 1 July 1937

(text at Annex A). The Protocol promotes international

co-operation with the aim of preventing

arising

in

statelessness

State whose

certain circumstances.

statelessness

It aims to avoid

arising at birth and provides that, in a

nationality is not conferred by the mere fact

of birth in its territory, a person born there of a mother

possessing the nationality of that State and of a father

without nationality ΟΙ of unknown nationality shall have

the nationality of that state (Article 1).

2.

The Special Protocol

Concerning

Statelessness

('The Special Protocol') was concluded at the same

conference at the Hague on 12 April 1930 and entered into

force ол 1 July 1937 (text at Annex B). The Special

provides

Protocol

stateless

as

a

nationality

after

for

the case of persons rendered

result Of being deprived of their

entering a foreign country. The Special

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