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Panel to solve issue of stateless people
Lieutenant General Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior, has ordered that a committee be set up to resolve the issue of people without documents to prove their identity once and for all, a senior official said on Tuesday.
- By Samir Salama, Associate Editor
- Published: 23:15 September 2, 2008
Dubai: Lieutenant General Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior, has ordered that a committee be set up to resolve the issue of people without documents to prove their identity once and for all, a senior official said on Tuesday.
"A higher committee consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, will initiate a two-month mission from Sunday to resolve the issue," said Major General Nasser Al Nuaimi, director of the Minister of Interior's office.
Major General Al Nuaimi, who is also chairman of the committee, said all people who do not carry proper documents, including those who obtained decrees or UAE passports but without family books, known as Khulasat Qaid, will be able to register with the committee, "which will bring about final and decisive solutions to the problem in the light of the latest development in this dossier."
He was referring to people who obtained passports from the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros in a desperate attempt to end their legal limbo.
Major General Al Nuaimi said the committee's top priority will be to resolve the issue, which threatens the security and social stability of the country, especially as growing numbers of infiltrators are claiming this status.
"Shaikh Saif's instructions are to resolve the issue with the most effective and accurate means, to ensure only those who have a right to citizenship will obtain it, in accordance with the former Presidential Decree."
Under the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ministry of Interior formed a committee in December 2006 to identify the people without documents to prove their identity in the country and initiate proceedings for their UAE naturalisation.
The committee has naturalised about 1,300 people who were without citizenship, who were living in this country prior to December 2, 1971.
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