Concluding Document of Vienna – The Third Follow-up Meeting, 1989

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CO-OPERATION IN THE FIELD OF ECONOMICS, OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Co-operation in other areas

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(43) Aiming at ensuring effective equality of opportunity between the children of migrant workers and the children of their own nationals regarding access to all forms and levels of education, the participating States affirm their readiness to take measures needed for the better use and improvement of educational opportunities. Furthermore, they will encourage or facilitate, where reasonable demand exists, supplementary teaching in their mother tongue for the children of migrant workers.

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Co-operation in Humanitarian and Other Fields

Human Contacts

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(10) They will pay particular attention to the solution of problems involving the reunification of minor children with their parents. In this context and on the basis of the relevant provisions of the Final Act and of the other aforementioned CSCE documents, they will ensure

- that an application for this purpose submitted while the child is a minor will be dealt with favorably and expeditiously in order to effect the reunification without delay, and

- that adequate arrangements are made to protect the interests and welfare of the children concerned.

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Co-operation and exchanges in the field of education

(66) They will facilitate exchanges of schoolchildren between their countries on the basis of bilateral arrangements, where necessary, including meeting and staying with families of the host country in their homes, with the aim of acquainting schoolchildren with life, traditions and education in other participating States.

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