121. The Commission notes that through its grounds on the merits, the Respondent State holds that the issue of statelessness has been or is being resolved. To this effect, the Respondent State reports that a set of laws necessary to arrive at valid conclusions have been adopted and to consider their relevance and the extent to which they settle the issues raised by the Complainant. First, the Respondent State invokes the United Nations Conventions on Statelessness which was ratified on 13 September, 2013. As it has concluded above, the Commission considers that the Ivorian nationality code is not in keeping with the Conventions ratified by the Respondent State. Better still, the said Conventions take precedence over Ivorian law and, with Côte d’Ivoire being a monistic State, are immediately applied internally. The same can be said that under the provisions of Article 3 of the Nationality Code, « The provisions on nationality contained in the international treaties and agreements duly ratified and gazetted shall apply even if they are contrary to the provisions of the domestic Ivorian law ». The clarity of these provisions requires no interpretation. Applicants for Ivorian nationality have a legal claim, subject to reasonable acquisition requirements, when they do not hold the nationality of any other State, and when the refusal to grant them Ivorian nationality status would make them stateless. Furthermore, and as this study looks beyond this situation, a distinction must be made between the Dioulas and the others as well as the nationality categories and the related advantages. 122. Secondly, for a judicious evaluation of the actions taken by the Government of the Respondent State, it is indispensable to examine the standards for the application of the Conventions on statelessness duly ratified by Côte d’Ivoire in 2013. The Parties agree in effect on the consideration of all the measures taken up to the date of submission of their respective conclusions on the merits, without prejudice to the consideration of the applications for reliefs for violations committed. As the Commission has already observed, the relevant provisions of the Conventions on statelessness and the related Directives are reference standards par excellence for the implementation of the right to the recognition of the legal status guaranteed by Article 5 of the Charter. To consider the grounds of the Respondent State, which tends to lead to the conclusion that its reforms have resolved the issues raised by this Communication, one must, therefore, compare the said reforms with the previous observations of the Commission and the international standards mentioned supra. 123. As an introductory overview to the evaluation of the reforms invoked by the Respondent State, the Commission notes that between the date of its submission and the consideration of the merits, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire enacted two laws in 2004 to amend the provisions of the Nationality 36