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Signed | 30 August 1961 |
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Location | New York City |
Effective | 13 December 1975 |
Condition | 6 ratifications |
Signatories | 3 |
Parties | 78 |
Depositary | Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Languages | Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish |
The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is a 1961 United Nations multilateral treaty whereby sovereign states agree to reduce the incidence of statelessness. The Convention was originally intended as a Protocol to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, while the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons was adopted to cover stateless persons who are not refugees and therefore not within the scope of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.[1]