A/RES/50/175
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2.
Reaffirms that all Governments, particularly those of receiving
countries, must recognize the vital importance of family reunification and
promote its incorporation into national legislation in order to ensure
protection of the unity of families of documented migrants;
3.
Calls upon all States to allow, in conformity with international
legislation, the free flow of financial remittances by foreign nationals
residing in their territory to their relatives in the country of origin;
4.
Also calls upon all States to refrain from enacting, and to repeal
if it already exists, legislation intended as a coercive measure that
discriminates against individuals or groups of legal migrants by adversely
affecting family reunification and the right to send financial remittances to
relatives in the country of origin;
5.
Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its
fifty-first session under the item entitled "Human rights questions".
99th plenary meeting
22 December 1995