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The

1961

UN

Convention

on the

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P.15

Reduction

of

Statelessness, which the United Kingdom has ratified,

requires

a

contracting

party to

grant "its

nationality" to a person born in its territory who would otherwise be stateless. We are satisfied that

by granting the ethnic minorities either British

Overseas

of British

Nationality

citizenship,

(Overseas)

or

which RTA

British

accepted forms

nationality, we are meeting our obligations under the

Convention. The ethnic minorities will have a form of

British nationality,

Consular protection. They will not have the right of abode in the United Kingdom, but the Convention does not include the grant of right of abode amongst a

contracting State's obligations.

British passports and British

Protocol 4 of the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedomo provides that no-one shall be deprived of the right to enter the territory of the State of

which he is a national.

the

tick

itself in

Although the UK ratified 1951, it has not ratified the Fourth Protocol, partly because of the distinction drawn in our immigration

and nationality legislation between nationals who have sufficiently close connections with the UK to justify the right of abode here and other

British nationals who do not have these connections.

those British

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