As chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources as well as a CSCE Commissioner. I will follow reports of Soviet compliance to these provisions with intense interest. In another area. emigration. the Soviet record has been abysmal. Only members of three ethnic minoritiesJews. Germans. and Armenianshave been permitted to leave the Soviet Union. During the past year. the emigration of these three groups has been reduced to a trickle. In 1982. only 2.688 Soviet Jews were allowed to emigrate as opposed to 51.320 in 1979. Even more ominous for the prospects of Soviet Jewry is the recent formation of an official antiZionist committee which announced in June of this year that the process of family reunification for Soviet Jews was "essentially completed." Yet. Western organizations claim that at least 300.000 Jews would still like to leave the U.S.S.R. At the time when the Soviet Union and the United States are engaged in negotiations in several important arms control areas.
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