Speech #970161404

I rise to express my wholehearted support for House Concurrent Resolution 205 expressing congressional concern about continued violations of human rights by the Soviet Union in the Ukraine. Once again this Congress must convey its opposition to the continuing practices of the Soviet Union in depriving their citizens and those of their satellites in Eastern Europe of the basic human rights and dignities which so many other millions of people in the world routinely enjoy. These include the right to emigrate. freedom of religion. of assembly. of speech. and the like. Another key element of this resolution which I fully support is the provision which calls on the President to commemorate the establishment of the Ukrainian Public Group To Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords scheduled for November 9. 1982. This group has been in the forefront of the struggle to get the Soviet Union to respect the rights of the people of the Ukraine to those provisions contained in the Helsinki accords.