Speaker. I rise in strong support of House Concurrent Resolution 111. a resolution expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the treatment by the Soviet Union of Yuriy Shukhevych. As signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. and the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. the Soviet Union has acknowledged the right of its citizens - to emigrate. Yury Shukhevych is currently serving his 28th year of imprisonment for refusing to denounce the ideals of Ukrainian nationalism and the activities of his late father. Roman Shukhevych. a Ukrainian freedom fighter. The Soviet Union should cease this imprisonment and allow him and his family to emigrate to the country of their choice. Yuriy Shukhevych cannot speak for himself. we. in this Congress must continue to speak for him and others like him.*
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