President. I am pleased to join in sponsoring Senate Concurrent Resolution 51 offered by the distinguished Senator from New York and the distinguished Senator from Tennessee . The concurrent resolution expresses "the sense of 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." The fundamental right of emigration Is specifically written into the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However. Communist nations which are member states of the General Assembly have consistently ignored the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by refusing to allow citizens the right to emigrate to the land of their choice. If the United Nations has a proper role to play in the affairs of the nations of the world. I believe this is a proper subject for the U.N. to consider. The plight of Soviet Jews is perhaps the best example of the totalitarian system perpetrated by the Communist world. Living under a system of constant terror including all forms of political. social. and religious persecution. many Soviet Jews have been denied the right to leave the Soviet Union and emigrate hoping to find a more peaceful life elsewhere. Members of other groups have also sought the right to emigrate from within the ComCXVII- 2696Part 33 munist world and have been denied the right to do so. The wall separating East and West Berlin continues to symbolize the Communists total disregard for the universal right of social mobility declared to be the policy of the international community. Mr.
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