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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/89
7 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 110 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.2)]
51/89.
Respect for the right to universal freedom
of travel and the vital importance of
family reunification
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are
universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
Recalling the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1
Stressing that, as stated in the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development,2 family reunification
of documented migrants is an important factor in international migration, and
that remittances by documented migrants to their countries of origin often
constitute a very important source of foreign exchange and are instrumental in
improving the well-being of relatives left behind,
Recalling its resolution 50/175 of 22 December 1995,
1.
Once again calls upon all States to guarantee the universally
recognized freedom of travel to all foreign nationals legally residing in
their territory;
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development,
Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18),
chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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