The concurrent resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 51). reads as follows: S. CON. RES. i1 Whereas the Congress is concerned about the fact that some nations have not adhered to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which specifically recites that all people have a right to expatriate themselvesto pass freely from state to state. to remove themselves from a jurisdiction which they find destructive or offensive to their rights. and Whereas the vengeful trial of Jews attempting to leave Lengingrad. the plight of hundreds like Rita Gluzman whose husband has not been allowed to emigrate from Ukraine to join her and their baby son In Israel. the killing of approximately 65 people trying to flee East Berlin. the brutal beating. recapture. and subsequent prosecution of the Lithuanian seaman on an American Coast Guard vessel. the expressed fear of Solzhenitsen that if he accepted the Nobel Prize in Stockholm. he could be barred forever from his Russian homeland are all evidence of the fact that some nations have not honored the aforementioned basic and internationally recognized human right. and right of everyone to leave any country and return to his own country. and Whereas both authoritative world opinion and international law consider the right to leave and t6return as a fundamental human right binding on all governments. and Whereas this extremely important moral issue has never been brought before the United Nations General Assembly: Now. therefore. be it resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring). That it is 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 return to ones country.
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