Speech #970018507

I have requested that our charge daffaires in Moscow and our State Department monitor this situation and make a special effort to see that Vladimir Kislik be released. The continued incarceration of Viktor Brailovsky and Vladimir Kislik and many others. are examples of the continuing repression by Soviet authorities of Jews whose sole crime is a desire to be reunited with their families and to enjoy their religious freedoms. Constant attention must continue to be directed to the inequities of the Soviet emigration system so that conditions will improve for those Soviet Jews. like Viktor Brailovsky and Vladimir Kislik. who have been separated from their families by political boundaries. It is my hope that this resolution will show the Soviet Union that the United States is deeply concerned over the fate of Viktor Brailovsky and Vladimir Kislik and other Soviet citizens who are only exercising their basic human rights. I urge the adoption of House Concurrent Resolution 50.e