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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/121
23 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 112 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/52/644/Add.2)]
52/121. 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 51/89 of 12 December 1996,
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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