Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 111. expressing the sense of the Congress that the Government of the Soviet Union should cease its imprisonment of Yuriy Shukhevych and permit him and his family to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Yuriy Shukhevych. the son of a Ukrainian freedom fighter. has been jailed 29 of the past 33 years in the Soviet Union. The socalled crime is merely Shukhevychs refusal to denounce the ideals of Ukrainian nationalism and the deeds of his father. who struggled for freedom. Shukhevych has not received essential medical treatment while in prison. although he suffers a series of ailments. The resolution calls for the President to voice U.S. opposition to the imprisonment of Yuriy Shukhevych. to remind the Soviets of their violations of international commitments such as the Helsinki Final Act. the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. as well as the Soviet Constitution. and to urge that Shukhevych and his family be permitted to emigrate and find a new homeland. Mr. Speaker.
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