Convention on legal status of migrant workers and members of their families of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States

of November 14, 2008

The State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States which are hereinafter referred to as with the Parties

aiming to create conditions for providing the equal address concerning migrant workers, members of their families and citizens of the host party in that measure as it is regulated by its legislation and the international obligations,

understanding need of creating favorable conditions for movement of labor power on the territories of the Parties, based on their national interests,

for the purpose of effective regulation of labor migration flows, achievement of compliance of their amounts, directions and structure to interests of social and economic development of the Parties,

being guided by the principles of mutual understanding, tolerance, respect between representatives of the different people, proceeding from interests of development of the Commonwealth of Independent States, commitment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10, 1948, and also others fundamental documents of the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Independent States, obligatory for them, in the field of human rights and protection of the rights of migrant workers, agreed as follows:

Section I. Scope of application and determinations

Article 1

For the purposes of this Convention the stated below terms have the following values:

the migrant worker - person who is the citizen of one of the Parties, and also the person without citizenship who is constantly living in the territory of one Party, legally being and legally engaged in paid labor activity in the territory of other Party which citizen it is not and in which constantly does not live;

the border worker - the migrant worker who works at the border territory of one Party also keeps the permanent residence in the border territory of other Party where he returns every day or, at least, at least once a week;

the seasonal worker - the migrant worker whose work is in character connected with seasonal conditions also is carried out during the certain period of year;

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