Mr. President. I wish to protest the latest Soviet actions In an attempt to block the emigration of Jews. Not only are these policies a direct violation of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. but they flout the underlying precepts of respectability in a governments relationship with its citizenry. and with other member nations of the international community. I am speaking. Mr. President. of the Soviet discriminatory decision of placing an educational tax on any application for emigration. The intent of this policy is clear. It is a form of ransom. The pawns of this scheme are principally the Soviet Jews who are desirous of emigrating to Israel. and other minority populations who have expressed a desire to emigrate as a result of the persecution they suffer at home. While I am not shocked to discover this kind of callousness still operating in the highest circles of Soviet leadership. I am. nevertheless. disillusioned by it all.
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