While seeking to implement our ideals at home. we cannot ignore our responsibility to all people. regardless of nationality. Soviet Jews must be able to enjoy the right of free exit. without harassment. and as a people. we in the United States must help to insure that right. It is sometimes claimed that for this House to establish a link between the grant to the U.S.S.R. of mostfavorednation status and the behavior of the Soviet authorities toward Soviet citizens wishing to emigrate. would constitute some form of interference in the domestic affairs of the U.S.S.R. Nothing could be more misleading or factually incorrect. The right of citizens to leave their country freely. without harassment. penalization or interference is not a purely internal issue for the authorities of a particular state. but a solemn international obligation. specifically safeguarded by the International Charter on Human Rights. by which the U.S.S.R. is obligated no less than the other member states of the international communitynor do the Soviet authorities deny this fact.
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