Respect for the right to universal freedom of travel and the vital importance of family reunification : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

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; calls upon all States to allow the free flow of financial remittances by foreign nationals residing in their territory to their relatives in the country of origin and to refrain from enacting, and to repeal if it already exists, legislation 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.

Adopted 86-4-80, 99th meeting

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Adopted at the 99th plenary meeting, 22 Dec. 1995.