Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 330. which calls on the Soviet Union to grant Ida Nudel a visa permitting her to immigrate to Israel. By passing this resolution the Congress is stating that the President should urge the Soviet Union to accept Ida Nudels visa application and allow her to join her sister in Israel. Such a request would be based upon the Soviet Unions own pledges in accordance with the Final Act of the Helsinki Conference. the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The case of Ida Nudel is well known by this body as well as around the world. She has suffered greatly for the crime of merely seeking to exercise her right to emigrate from the Soviet Union. As this resolution points out. Ida Nudel first applied for a visa in 1971. Her efforts to publicly demand her right to immigrate were rewarded by being sentenced in 1978 to 4 years of internal exile in Siberia. Ida Nudel was released in March of this year. Since then she has been denied a permit to live in Moscow. her former residence.
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