Speech #920206659

RosENTHAL. I am proud that I am a cosponsor of the resolution and that it has beer. brought to the floor so quickly so as to permit the House of Representatives to state its position in support of the Soviet Jews and other minorities repressed and discriminated against in the U.S.S.R. before the President meets with Soviet authorities next month in Russia. Soviet Jews and other minorities in the U.S.S.R. in everincreasing numbers are seeking to emigrate from the Soviet Union to other countries willing to accept them. That right to emigrate is one accorded to Soviet citizens under the constitution of the U.S.S.R. as well as under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to which the U.S.S.R. is subject. There are many Jews and other minority members who will never leave the U.S.S.R.. but will live out their lives there. and this resolution concerns itself also with their condition. It is vital that the Soviet Union accord to all of the minorities in its boundaries the religious and cultural rights guaranteed under the very constitution which. governs the U.S.S.R.