Nationality of Natural Persons in Relation to the Succession of States

A/RES/63/118View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72 Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2000–2012

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/66/92

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2012	A/RES/66/92	Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States	394	82%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/118	Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States	395	87%Compare
2004	A/RES/59/34	Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States	344	8%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/153	Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States	2,754	6%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/112	Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States	209	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Legislative Process Nationality State Succession

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Reiterates its invitation to Governments to take into account, as appropriate, the provisions of the articles contained in the annex to resolution 55/153, in dealing with issues of nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States;

Encourages States to consider, as appropriate, at the regional or subregional levels, the elaboration of legal instruments regulating questions of nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States, with a view, in particular, to preventing the occurrence of statelessness as a result of a succession of States;

Invites Governments to submit comments concerning the advisability of elaborating a legal instrument on the question of nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States, including the avoidance of statelessness as a result of a succession of States;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-sixth session the item entitled “Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States”, with the aim of examining the subject, including the question of the form that might be given to the draft articles.

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