The resolution expresses the sense of the Congress that as the leading representative of a country that prides itself on a tradition of religious and cultural freedom. the President shall exert Americas diplomatic and moral resources in support of the courageous Soviet Jews who daily incur great risks and suffer inhuman privation rather than submit to the destruction of their Jewish identity. Specifically. the President is asked to call upon the Soviet Government to honor the words of its own constitution by permitting the free expression of ideas and exercise of religion by all its citizensand he is asked to utilize all available channels. formal and informal. to convey this position. Moreover. the President is requested to demand of the Soviet Government that it permit its citizens the right to emigrate to the countries of their choice as affirmed by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. The right to free emigration is basic and fundamental to human liberty. It is a tragic crime for the Sovietor any othergovernment to imprison its own citizens in a society where they can neither practice their religion nor make their way to countries where they might give full expression to their religious and cultural Identity. Finally. this resolution calls upon the State Department to raise in the General Assembly of the United Nations the issue of the Soviet Unions transgression of the Declaration of Human Rightsa declaration that was unanimously adopted by the United Nations.
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