This official policy was not affected by the Final Act of the European Security Conference. signed in Helsinki in 1975. It continues to be national policy not to recognize in any way the forced occupation and incorporation of the Baltic nations into the U.S.S.R. Moreover. in keeping with our tradition as champion of international human rights. the United States cannot ignore the denial of these rights by the Soviets to the native Baltic peoples. so many of whom have been systematically deported from their homelands to Siberia. and all of whom have been deprived of their fundamental freedomscultural. political. and religious. It is altogether fitting that June 14. the anniversary of the 1941 mass deportation of Baltic peoples. be designated "Baltic Freedom Day" as testimony that we in this country do not forget. and will not forget. these oppressed peoples and their abiding hopes for a future of national selfdetermination and personal freedoms.
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