Mr. Speaker. I would like once again to bring to the attention of the Members the plight of Soviet Jewry and the struggles of these people to emigrate. Although SovietAmerican relations are in a state of flux. this is no reason to give up on our efforts to aid the refusniks. Many of the refusniks have relations in the United States and Israel The Soviet Unions refusal to allow these people to be reunited with their families amounts to a direct violation of the Helsinki accords which were signed in 1975. If their treatment of the refusniks is any indication the Soviet Union does not take seriously the commitment it made to facilitate freer private and official movement and contracts among persons and organizations of the participating states.
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