Baptists have lost their homes because they held worship services there. Many additional acts against religious groups are documented. including imprisonment for the exercise of freedoms of speech and of conscience. Many of those within the religious minorities. but particularly the Jews. have sought to immigrate to other lands. such as the effort by many Jews to go to Israel. Until recently when pressure from within and without the Soviet Union forced some modification of that Governments policy. these requests were denied. Even now. the numbers permitted to leave are very small. In the past year I have met with a number of Soviet Jews who have fled their country and I have become personally and painfully aware of the intransigence of the Soviet Government where emigration rights are concerned. Thus the third provision of our resolution deals with this basic right accorded by all freedomloving nations to their citizens. the right to emigrate. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights acknowledges the right of citizens to emigrate to the countries of their choice and the Soviet Union is a signatory to this declaration. Yet it flagrantly violates this right daily. The fourth provision would. therefore. call on the President to raise in the General Assembly of the United Nations the issue of the Soviet Unions violation of the Human Rights Declaration.
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