It is my opinion that the United States cannot simply carry on "business as usual" with the Soviet Union while it denies its inhabitants basic human rights and In particular the right to escape oppression by leaving the country. The Assembly of the State of New York recently passed a resolution of solidarity with Dina and Uri Podriachik. representing all oppressed Soviet Jews. The resolution requests Congress to call upon the Soviet Union to release Uri Podriachik. as well as other Soviet Jews. to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the country of their choice. I have made such calls in my own name on numerous occasions. Certainly this resolution merits the immediate attention and action of Congress. I am therefore today introducing a concurrent resolution modeled after the New York Assembly resolution. Further. we must resist those who call for the weakening of the profree emigration provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 and the granting of valuable considerations to the Soviet Union. We as a nation cannot grant concessions to a country that is in such flagrant violation of the principles of human rights that we hold dear. At this point I insert for the RECORD the text of the New York Assembly resolution. together with biographies of Dina Roitkop Podriachik and her son.
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