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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) --- Patt Haring | UNITEX : United Nations patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-