The Member State Experts from the Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) met in Kinshasa from 27 to 28 June 2017. The meeting was organized by ICGLR with the support of UNHCR. As a result of this conference, a draft Declaration and a Regional Action Plan to eradicate stateless in the Great Lakes Regions were prepared. Both documents were subsequently adopted on 16 October 2018 in Brazzaville by the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the ICGLR Member States.