Mr. President. this body adopted that amendment and adopted that trade bill on the explicit understanding that there existed between the Soviet authorities and Dr. Kissinger an understanding with respect to Soviet emigration policy. This was the basis on which we undertook to authorize the President to extend to the Soviet Union mostfavorednation status and to make available preferential credits to finance the transfer to the Soviet Union of American technology. Today. Mr. President. the UPI carried the following item. and I quote: The Soviet Union Wednesday flatly renounced any trade agreement with the United States binding Moscow to ease emigration. An official government statement distributed by the Tass News Agency denounced the trade bill passed by the U.S. Congress last Friday for "attempts to include provisions concerning . . . the departure of Soviet citizens for other countries." It said Moscow "flatly rejected as unacceptable . . . any attempts to interfere in internal affairs that are entirely the concern of the Soviet state and no one else." A few minutes later.
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