Mr. Speaker. during the course of this vigil on behalf of the MillsVanik amendment. It has been stressed that freedom of emigration is a universal human right which the Soviet Union endorses in principle but ignores in practice. It is especially disconcerting to me that Soviet officials have distorted and acted capriciously in interpreting their policy regarding the reunion of families. On October 3. 1966. at a Paris press conference. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin declared that "if any families which come together or wish to leave the Soviet Union. for them the road is open. and no problem exists here.
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