Helsinki 1975
• to regard with favour the efforts of the countries of origin to attract the savings of
migrant workers, with a view to increasing, within the framework of their economic
development, appropriate opportunities for employment, thereby facilitating the
reintegration of these workers on their return home.
(…)
Co-operation in Humanitarian and Other Fields
The participating States,
Desiring to contribute to the strengthening of peace and understanding among peoples
and to the spiritual enrichment of the human personality without distinction as to race,
sex, language or religion,
Conscious that increased cultural and educational exchanges, broader dissemination of
information, contacts between people, and the solution of humanitarian problems will
contribute to the attainment of these aims,
Determined therefore to cooperate among themselves, irrespective of their political,
economic and social systems, in order to create better conditions in the above fields, to
develop and strengthen existing forms of co-operation and to work out new ways and
means appropriate to these aims,
Convinced that this co-operation should take place in full respect for the principles
guiding relations among participating States as set forth in the relevant document,
Have adopted the following:
1. Human Contacts
The participating States,
Considering the development of contacts to be an important element in the strengthening of friendly relations and trust among peoples,
Affirming, in relation to their present effort to improve conditions in this area, the
importance they attach to humanitarian considerations,
Desiring in this spirit to develop, with the continuance of détente, further efforts to
achieve continuing progress in this field,
And conscious that the questions relevant hereto must be settled by the States concerned under mutually acceptable conditions,
Make it their aim to facilitate freer movement and contacts, individually and collectively, whether privately or officially, among persons, institutions and organizations of
the participating States, and to contribute to the solution of the humanitarian problems
that arise in that connection,
10 OSCE Human Dimension Commitments
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