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<p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: center 225.65pt" align="justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"><font face="Verdana" size="3">Draft
European Convention on Nationality</font></span></b></p>
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150%;'><b><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style='letter-spacing: -.1pt'>Doc.
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
150%;'><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;"><font face="Verdana" size="2">25
September 1996</font></span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:12.0pt;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: center 225.65pt" align="justify"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">REQUEST
FOR AN OPINION</span></font></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: center 225.65pt" align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">FROM
THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS TO THE ASSEMBLY</span></font></p>

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    <p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: center 225.65pt" align="justify"><i><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">Letter
    from the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers </span></font></i><i><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">to
    the President of the Assembly, </span></font></i><i><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">dated
    25 September 1996</span></font></i></p>
    <p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -72.0pt -36.0pt" align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt">Dear
    Madam President,</span></font></p>
    <p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -72.0pt -36.0pt" align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span>I have the honour to inform you that the Ministers' Deputies, at
    their 572nd meeting (September 1996), decided to invite the Parliamentary
    Assembly to give an opinion on the text of the draft European Convention on
    Nationality, which I enclose in both official languages.</span></font></p>
    <p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -72.0pt -36.0pt" align="justify"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1; letter-spacing: -.1pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
    </span><span lang="FR" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR">...</span></font></p>
    <p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: center 225.65pt" align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i><span lang="FR" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR">Signed:</span></i></font></p>
    <p style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: center 225.65pt" align="center"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="FR" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-ansi-language: FR">Karin
    Jaani</span></font></p>
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