must, therefore, compare the legal status of the victims identified above to the rights and mechanisms provided for by the said reforms. 128. Starting from the first generation Dioulas, the Commission has already concluded that their right to Ivorian nationality is consubstantial with the historic and legal establishment of the said nationality. Consequently, only the mode of granting Ivorian nationality by way of nationality of origin applies to them. In this regard, one could say that Law No 2013-653 of 13 September, 2013 on the special provisions on acquisition of nationality by declaration is a significant advancement in the sense that it extends its application to persons residing regularly and without hindrance in Côte d’Ivoire before 7 August, 1960 and their children born in Côte d’Ivoire. Indeed, these provisions under Article 2 of the said law use the date of independence and residence prior to this date as points of reference. At first glance, such provisions appear to resolve the issue of the nationality of the Dioulas. However, many key factors show that this reform does not substantially resolve the issue. 129. First, under the provisions of Article 10 of the Implementing Order of the said law, the reform of the acquisition of nationality by simple declaration is applicable for a period of 24 months, as from the date of its publication, i.e. 22 January, 2014. According to statistics produced by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and which statistics are not challenged by the Parties, at least 700,000 persons were stateless in Côte d’Ivoire, as at the date of this decision. The Commission notes that at the end of the initial registration period which ended on 31 July, 2014, only 80, 000 persons had submitted applications for the acquisition of Ivorian nationality. The second and last registration period will run from March to June, 2015, i.e. for a period of four months. Using the fact that only 80,000 potential applicants registered in 20 months as the point of reference, the probability of the over 600,000 remaining persons doing so in four months is very low. 130. On this same point, the Commission refers to the outcome of the previous reforms to note that experience does not seem to have informed the 2013 reforms. Among others, it is indeed clear that the restriction of closed deadlines has led to such alarming figures of stateless people. Thus, the nationality Code had granted only one year for the acquisition of nationality by declaration. Hundreds of thousands of persons who were however residing in the country before independence were thus unable to obtain their nationality documents. Similarly, the 2004 reform which reintroduced acquisition by declaration and which provided for a period of twelve months for the said acquisition was hardly more successful. On the time necessary for the effective implementation of the reform, therefore, the Government of the 39