Mr. President. I am today submitting. on behalf of the Senator from Tennessee and myself. a concurrent resolution. conforming precsely to one introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman JACK KEMP. which expresses "the sense of the Congress that the President. acting through the United Nations. should present to the United Nations General Assembly in fitting manner the issue of the right to emigrate from and also retun to ones country." We are all aware of the persistent violations by Communist nations of the fundamental right of emigration. one that is specifically written into the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This persistent refusal to allow a citizen to leave has most recently been dramatized by the plight of Russian Jews who seek to find a new life elsewhere. This resolution has been the subject of hearings before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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