diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7fa099376b..1f6d7bfe89 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - Aligns naming of sliced OpenAPI description generated by `plugin add` should be named `<plugin-name>-openapi.json|yml` [#4595](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/4595)
 - Fixed RPC server to respect the `KIOTA_CONFIG_PREVIEW` flag.
+- Added missing nullable directives for CLI generation.
 - Fixed handling of nested arrays to be handled as `UntypedNode` instances [#4549](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/4549)
 - Fixed `InvalidOperationException` thrown when serializing IBacked models with no changes present in the additional data in dotnet [microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-dotnet#2471](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-dotnet/issues/2471).
 - Fixed `RequestConfiguration` Classes dropped in RequestBuilder methods in python [#4535](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/4535)
diff --git a/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriter.cs b/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriter.cs
index b651471c26..ebec472968 100644
--- a/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriter.cs
+++ b/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriter.cs
@@ -341,7 +341,9 @@ private void WriteCommandHandlerBodyOutput(LanguageWriter writer, in CodeMethod
 
             if (originalMethod.PagingInformation != null)
             {
+                writer.WriteLine(CSharpConventionService.NullableEnableDirective, false);
                 writer.WriteLine($"IOutputFormatter? {formatterVar} = null;");
+                writer.WriteLine(CSharpConventionService.NullableRestoreDirective, false);
             }
             if (originalMethod.ReturnType is CodeType type &&
                 conventions.GetTypeString(type, originalMethod) is { } typeString && !typeString.Equals("Stream", StringComparison.Ordinal))
diff --git a/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CSharp/CSharpConventionService.cs b/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CSharp/CSharpConventionService.cs
index 62e01592b3..5a5c1309e8 100644
--- a/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CSharp/CSharpConventionService.cs
+++ b/src/Kiota.Builder/Writers/CSharp/CSharpConventionService.cs
@@ -18,17 +18,19 @@ public class CSharpConventionService : CommonLanguageConventionService
     public const char NullableMarker = '?';
     public static string NullableMarkerAsString => "?";
     public override string ParseNodeInterfaceName => "IParseNode";
+    public const string NullableEnableDirective = "#nullable enable";
+    public const string NullableRestoreDirective = "#nullable restore";
 
     public static void WriteNullableOpening(LanguageWriter writer)
     {
         ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(writer);
         writer.WriteLine($"#if NETSTANDARD2_1_OR_GREATER || NETCOREAPP3_1_OR_GREATER", false);
-        writer.WriteLine($"#nullable enable", false);
+        writer.WriteLine(NullableEnableDirective, false);
     }
     public static void WriteNullableMiddle(LanguageWriter writer)
     {
         ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(writer);
-        writer.WriteLine($"#nullable restore", false);
+        writer.WriteLine(NullableRestoreDirective, false);
         writer.WriteLine("#else", false);
     }
     public static void WriteNullableClosing(LanguageWriter writer)
diff --git a/tests/Kiota.Builder.Tests/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriterTests.cs b/tests/Kiota.Builder.Tests/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriterTests.cs
index c211a7121c..ab5d455c24 100644
--- a/tests/Kiota.Builder.Tests/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriterTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Kiota.Builder.Tests/Writers/CLI/CliCodeMethodWriterTests.cs
@@ -951,7 +951,9 @@ public void WritesExecutableCommandForPagedGetRequestModel()
         Assert.Contains("var pagingData = new PageLinkData(requestInfo, null, itemName: \"item\", nextLinkName: \"nextLink\");", result);
         Assert.Contains("var reqAdapter = invocationContext.GetRequestAdapter()", result);
         Assert.Contains("var pageResponse = await pagingService.GetPagedDataAsync((info, token) => reqAdapter.SendNoContentAsync(info, cancellationToken: token), pagingData, all, cancellationToken);", result);
+        Assert.Contains("#nullable enable", result);
         Assert.Contains("IOutputFormatter? formatter = null;", result);
+        Assert.Contains("#nullable restore", result);
         Assert.Contains("if (pageResponse?.StatusCode >= 200 && pageResponse?.StatusCode < 300) {", result);
         Assert.Contains("formatter = outputFormatterFactory.GetFormatter(output);", result);
         Assert.Contains("response = (response != Stream.Null) ? await outputFilter.FilterOutputAsync(response, query, cancellationToken) : response", result);