Stateless is a term used by UN members and members to a treaty to connote those who are not nationals of any member of the UN or of the treaty forum, it does not mean that they do not have nationality at all. If ten members to a treaty existed at point A in time and one of the members ceased to exist for whatever reason at point B in time, within the treaty forum mental paradigm, the citizens of the no-longer-existing State might be 'stateless'. Someone who is a citizen of a non-U.N. member is 'Stateless' in the sense of not being a citizen of any U.N. member state. "Stateless" does not necessarily connote total lack of citizenship.