Mr. Speaker. I was deeply disturbed to learn from the National Conference on Soviet Jewry yesterday that the number of Jews allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union reached a 10year low last month. According to the national conference. only 205 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union during the month of May. This is the lowest monthly emigration figure since the Soviet Union began allowing largescale Jewish emigration in 1971. This latest setback for Soviet Jewry signals increasingly brutal disregard for human rights by the Soviet Union. In addition to closing the doors to Jewish emigration. Soviet officials have also stepped up their attacks on Jewish efforts to study and celebrate their cultural heritage. It is becoming increasingly urgent that we in the Congress speak out on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Further. I urge the administration to take advantage of every opportunityincluding the upcoming arms control negotiations in Genevato express the concern of the people of this country about the fate of Jews in the Soviet Union. and to urge that a more humane emigration policy be pursued by that country. I have introduced a concurrent resolution. House Concurrent Resolution 336. which would direct the President to take such action.
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