[misc.headlines.unitex] BULGARIA ACCEDES ON ACQUISITION OF NATIONALITY

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BULGARIA ACCEDES ON ACQUISITION OF NATIONALITY
     Posting Date: 09/14/89      Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA

     UN PRESS RELEASE:

     Bulgaria has acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Vienna
     Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of
     Nationality.  Its instrument of accession was received by the
     United Nations Office of Legal Affairs on 11 July

     The Optional Protocol concerning Acquisition of Nationality was
     concluded in Vienna on 24 April 1963 and came into force on 19
     March 1967.  It states that members of a consular post and
     members of their families who form part of their households
     shall not acquire the nationality of the receiving State solely
     by the operation of the law of that State.

     As of 11 July, a total of 35 States had indicated their
     willingness to be bound by this Protocol through ratification or
     accession.

 * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501)

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