UNITED NATIONS С Е £ Ш IConvention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against WomenDistr. GENERAL CEDAW/C/SR.156 9 February 1990 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: FRENCH COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN Ninth session SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 156th MEETING Held at Headquarters, New York, on Wednesday, 24 January 1990, at 3 p.m. Chairperson! Ms. EVATT CONTENTS Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention (continued) This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be submitted in one of the working languages. They should be set forth in a memorandum and also incorporated in a copy of the record. They should be sent within one week of the date of this document to the Chief, Official Records Editing Section, Department of Conference Services, room DC2-750, 2 United Nations Plaza. Any corrections to the records of the meetings of this session will be consolidated in a single corrigendum, to be issued shortly after the and of the session. 90-55065 2323S (E) /. . The meeting was called to order at 3.05 p.m. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 18 OF THE CONVENTION (continued) Initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (continued) (CEDAW/C/5/Add.52 and Amend.1-4) Article 9 1. Ms. LAIOU-ANTONIOU asked if the provision of the British Nationality Act whereby a man (but not a woman) who was a British citizen was entitled, until 31 December 1987, to acquire British citizenship for his children born in a foreign country who would not automatically be British citizens at birth had been abolished and, if so, whether the reservation expressed by the United Kingdom with respect to article 9 of the Convention had been withdrawn. 2. Ms. UKEJE asked what rationale lay behind that provision of the British 
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