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Volume I: National Reports 1988 Fouad Chebat1 The Syrian Arab Republic ( al- djumhūrīya al-‛ arabīya as-sūrīya) is part of the Union of Arab Republics (see report infra p. U–11). I. CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM 1. Nationality Since the end of the First World War Syria has had the following nationality laws: Order ( arrêté) no. 16 of 19 Jan. 1925 of the High Commissioner of the French Republic ( Recueil des actes administratifs du Haut- Commissariat VI– 1925, 20); Law no. 98 of 21 May 1951 (JO 1951, 1839); Legislative Decree no. 21 of 4 Feb. 1953 (JO 1953, 743); Order ( arrêté) no. 82 of 22 June 1958 (…