60  //  CONTACT POINT FOR ROMA AND SINTI ISSUES (L-r) Henrik Villadsen, Director and Officer-in-Charge at the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities; Clemens Koja, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council; Katarzyna Jarosiewicz-Wargan, First Deputy Director at the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights; Lamberto Zannier, OSCE Secretary General; and Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), present a new OSCE-UNHCR handbook of international standards and good practices to address statelessness in the OSCE area, Vienna, 2 March 2017. (OSCE/Micky Kroell). in cooperation with the State Migration Service of Ukraine. Thirty-eight participants (14 men, 24 women) from central and regional state authorities, Roma and non-Roma civil society organizations and international organizations, as well as international experts, explored solutions to problems Roma men and women face in accessing official documents. Participants developed the “Odesa declaration: Recommendations to overcome obstacles to civil registration and identity documents faced by Roma in Ukraine”. UNHCR-ODIHR COOPERATION ON STATELESSNESS Handbook on Statelessness in the OSCE area: International Standards and Good Practices In March, the OSCE and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees launched the jointly developed Handbook on Statelessness in the OSCE Area: International Standards and Good Practices. The handbook highlights the implications of statelessness for individuals, states and societies. It also outlines good practices that can be implemented in OSCE participating States and provides recommendations concerning how to increase engagement and progress in addressing the phenomenon by OSCE participating States. Following the publication of the Handbook, UNHCR, together with the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship and ODIHR, co-organized a study visit for Ukrainian officials to Serbia. The purpose of the trip was to encourage the exchange of good practices for issuing documents confirming nationality as a means to reduce and prevent statelessness among Roma and Sinti. The outcomes of the study visit were presented on 2 October in Vienna at the “Practical OSCE-UNHCR Seminar on Sharing Good Practices on Statelessness among OSCE participating States”.