Mr. Speaker. I wholeheartedly support the MillsVanik amendment. which would deny mostfavorednation status to the Soviet Union until it liberalizes its emigration policies. Our concern is for the plight of all Soviet citizens. whether they be Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel. Ukrainians who seek to join relatives in Canada and elsewhere. or Latvians. Lithuanians. and Estonians. whose countries were annexed to the Soviet Union at the outset of World War II. The imprisonment and oppression of its citizens by the Soviet regime is a condition of which we are all aware. and it is one which demands not just sympathy but action on our part. and in no case should we settle for mere reports of progress as a substitute for the progress itself.
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