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Citizenship
Azerbaijan adopted a new citizenship law in September 1998, whose Article 3 reflects the constitutional principle of equality with respect to rights and duties of the citizens of Azerbaijan. Article 5 of the citizenship law conferred citizenship, inter alia, to stateless persons who had been registered in a place of residence in Azerbaijan until 1 January 1992 if they applied within one year of the entry into force of the Law, and to refugees who had been settled in Azerbaijan from 1 January 1988 to 1 January 1992. On the basis of these provisions, Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia, most Meskhetian Turks and most formerly stateless political refugees from Iran were reportedly able to obtain citizenship.
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