As one of the original cosponsors of the Captive Nations Resolution (Public Law 8690). 1 find it tragic. indeed. that our expressions of deep concern and solidarity with the unfulfilled aspiration of the people of the captive nations for freedom and national independence are as relevani today as they were 16 years ago. Indeed. persecution and the denial of fundamental human rights in the Soviet Union and the captive nations continue unabated. The intensified clampdown on Soviet dissenters and minorities wishing to emigrate culminating in their being rounded up in contemplation of President Nixons recent trip to the Soviet Union. the imprisonment and alleged torture of the Ukrainian intellectuals Valentyn Moroz and Leonid Plyushch. the suppression of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches and. the imprisonment and harassment of innumerable political prisoners and others seeking to assert their human rights are only a few examples of the continuing situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union which we all deplore. so strongly. This year the attention of the people of the captive nations is especially directed to the 35nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe where the issues of the "inviolability of frontiers"-retention of the status quo in Eastern Europe by the Sovietsand "free flow of ideas and freedom of movement of people"-desired by the Westare being joined. If detente between East and West is to have a real and lasting meaning.
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