Speech #930262238

I join with many of our colleagues here in the Congress in seeking a prominent place on the agenda for discussion of the vital issue of the responsibility of human rights and the policy to be adopted by the U.S.S.R. in adjudicating and resolving the long standing usurpation of the states and fundamental rights of the "captive" oppressed people of Lithuanian. Estonian. Armenian. Latvian. Ukrainian and Jewish heritage whose religious and cultural freedoms as well as their right to emigrate are being rejected by an unjust and cruel exercise of authority. On June 15. 1974. the 34th anniversary of the forcible annexation of Estonia. Latvia. and Lithuania by the Soviet Union. commemorative services were observed by freedomloving people throughout the world in reaffirmation of the right of selfdetermination for the people of the Baltic Nations.