4) by naturalization,

7.3.2 Through naturalization

Local integration and naturalization

This was true of naturalization.

All concerned found the aforementioned provision on the naturalization of foreign wives to be unacceptable, because men and women had an equal right to naturalization.

The naturalization process in the Niger is as follows

Ensure that particular groups of non citizens are not discriminated against with regard to access to citizenship or naturalization, and to pay due attention to possible barriers to naturalization that may exist for long term or permanent residents

However, a foreign man who marries a Guinean woman may acquire Guinean nationality only by naturalization.

The Committee encourages the State party to continue the naturalization process without discrimination based on ethnic origin.

Naturalization is available to refugees and stateless persons in some asylum countries only and is not always reported.

Once this need became less pressing, acquisition of nationality of the Niger through naturalization was subjected to restrictions.

The new law would contain no such gender discrimination. Nor would there be any bias in the naturalization of children.

A person who acquires Jordanian nationality by naturalization is considered a Jordanian in all respects under the provisions of article 14.

The legal effects of nationality acquired by such means fell within one of the established means of acquisition birth, descent or naturalization.

In the United Republic of Tanzania, the Government accepted 182 Somali Bantu refugees for naturalization in 2004, the fee normally payable being significantly reduced.

The United Republic of Tanzania had been involved in the local integration of about 3,000 Somali refugees, some of whom had applied for naturalization.

Only Pitcairn Islanders by birth or naturalization, their children or grandchildren (having reached the age of 18 years) are eligible to apply for an allocation.

Mr. Sossa (Benin) said that a national committee was revising the law on naturalization and that a draft text had been submitted to the Supreme Court.

Mr. Flinterman, noting that Benin's law on naturalization was being revised to take into account, among other things, gender non discrimination, wished to know the main elements of the draft law whether it would include the current discriminatory provision preventing foreign born women marrying a Beninese national from acquiring Beninese nationality and whether the new law would give men and women equal rights with respect to their children's naturalization.

Moreover, in many countries, refugees were locally integrated with access to land and employment and some States, notably Indonesia, Armenia, the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan and Mexico, allowed large scale naturalization of refugees.

Ms. Heather Latu (Samoa) said the new Citizenship Act of 2004 gave both men and women equal rights with regard to obtaining or transmitting Samoan nationality, whether through marriage, birth, descent or naturalization.

That gap was being addressed through the Immigration and Residence Bill, which was proposing an Irish naturalization and immigration service with a unit to help all legal third country residents integrate into economic and cultural life.

It is worth pointing out that, pursuant to article 13, paragraph 1, of the same Act, the Council of Ministers may prevent or refuse an application for naturalization submitted to it under the provisions of article 12.

On 7 June 2002, the Immigration and Naturalization Service took custody of Mr. Ali, charged him as removable under immigration laws because of his previous conviction, placed him in removal proceedings and transferred him to immigration detention.

But during that exploratory mission, my very first task was to try to remove the objections raised by the opposition concerning the presidential decisions of 15 July regarding the new Independent Electoral Commission and the questions of identification and naturalization.

In this connection, it draws the attention of the State party to general recommendation XXV and to general recommendation XXX, which requests States parties to ensure that particular groups of non citizens are not discriminated against with regard to access to citizenship or naturalization.

In this connection, it draws the attention of the State party to general recommendation XXV (2000) and to general recommendation XXX (2004), which requests States parties to ensure that particular groups of non citizens are not discriminated against with regard to access to citizenship or naturalization.

For the purposes of the diplomatic protection of a natural person, a State of nationality means a State whose nationality that person has acquired, in accordance with the law of that State, by birth, descent, naturalization, succession of States or in any other manner, not inconsistent with international law.

(j) Welcomes the practice in States with developed asylum systems of allowing refugees to integrate locally and calls on these States to continue supporting refugees' ability to attain this durable solution through the timely grant of a secure legal status and residency rights, and or to facilitate naturalization

This the G 7 opposition parties for their part have rejected in part particularly in relation to the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) and the Special Law on Naturalization, and have appealed to the Mediator arguing that the amendments are not in total conformity with the recommendations of the Pretoria Agreement.

After I asked President Thabo Mbeki, the African Union's Mediator, to intervene with President Gbagbo, new presidential decrees were issued on 29 August confirming the key role of the Commission in conducting the electoral process and clarifying questions regarding nationality, identification and naturalization issues that constitute a fundamental aspect of the Ivorian crisis.

The link having been made in section 3 of the Pretoria Declaration preconditioning the effective commencement of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) with the adoption of the laws concerning naturalization and identification, the peace process is once again stalling because of the entrenched positions adopted by the parties to the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire.

These were the Citizenship (Nationality) Code, the Law on the Special Provisions for Naturalization, the Law on the Identification of Persons and Regulation of Aliens (Foreigners) in Côte d'Ivoire, the Law on the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), the Law on the Financing of Political Parties, and the Law on the National Human Rights Commission.

In response to the Committee's questions concerning citizenship, she noted that, under Latvia's Citizenship Law, all those permanently resident in Latvia for at least five years could acquire Latvian citizenship through naturalization, and that neither the marriage of a Latvian citizen to an alien or stateless person, nor the dissolution of such a marriage, affected the citizenship rights of the citizen concerned.

Recalling that the ultimate goal of international protection is to achieve durable solutions for refugees and noting that a solutions orientation is inherent in General Assembly resolution 428 (V) of 14 December 1950 adopting the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in the Statute itself, and in the 1951 Convention through its provisions on cessation, integration and naturalization,

Recalling that the ultimate goal of international protection is to achieve durable solutions for refugees and noting that a solutions orientation is inherent in General Assembly Resolution 428 (V) of 14 December 1950 adopting the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in the Statute itself, and in the 1951 Convention through its provisions on cessation, integration and naturalization,

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (known as Koizumi Yakumo after his naturalization as a Japanese citizen), an Englishman born on the Greek island of Lefkada, first introduced it in his novel A Living God. Hearn s depiction of the Meiji Sanriku earthquake, which in 1896 took 22,000 lives in the same region as the recent quake, was later included in elementary school textbooks under the title of The Burning of the Rice Field.

Since that date, the opposition parties of the G 7 led by the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) and the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) have appealed to the Mediator expressing their dissatisfaction with certain aspects of the laws adopted and in particular aspects of the Law on the Special Provisions for Naturalization, and the Law on the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), which they claim are not in conformity with the recommendations of the Pretoria Agreement.