Speaker. 58 Members of the House. on November 21. joined me in urging the State Department to take several steps to lend support to a request by Israel that the United Nations take up the consideration of the case of 18 Jewish families in the Soviet State of Georgia. These families. with great bravery. wrote to Israeli Premier Golda Meir to let her and the outside world know their petitions to Soviet officials for permission to leave the Soviet Union for Israel have been ignored for years. In effect. they are being held captive by the Soviet Unions refusal to allow them to emigrate to Israel. The specific steps the signers of the appeal urged on the State Department. and a copy of the letter the 18 Soviet Jewish families. appeared in the November 21 issue of the RECORD. According to status reports on the matter I have received from the Department of State and from Ambassador Yost. the documents concerning the case of the 18 Jewish families have been officially circulated by the Secretary General to all member delegations. and the United States has announced its concern over this case. and treatment of Soviet Jews in general. in the course of recent General Assembly debate.
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