Mr. Speaker. as sponsor of the resolution before the House. I urge my Colleagues support so that we may help insure the emigration of Liza Alekseyeva. In addition. House Resolution 286 addresses the important issue of Andrei Sakharovs internal exile. urging the Soviet Union to allow the Sakharovs to freely choose their place of residence. I deeply hope that the reports today from the Soviet Union that Andrei Sakharovs daughterinlaw has been promised permission to emigrate are true. If the Soviet Government follows up this promise with action. it will send a wave of relief around the world. As a member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. I have been deeply concerned about the Soviet leaderships violation of commitments made under the Helsinki agreements of 1975 through their refusal to allow Yelizaveta Alekseyeva to emigrate. If the Soviet Government follows through on its reported promises. it will be one indication of the moral force which the international humanitarian community has brought to bear for the sake of Dr. Sakharovone of the greatest crusaders for human rights and intellectual freedom alive today.
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