Mr. Speaker. if present trends continue. this year fewer than 1.000 Soviet Jewish citizens will be allowed to leave the Soviet Union. This is despite estimates that some Jews have received the required invitation from a close relative in another country. Those whose parents. children. or siblings do not live in another country are not even allowed to apply for permission to emigrate. The plight of the Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union is not new. Yet we cannot allow ourselves to remain complacent on such a crucial human rights issue. Familiarity must not breed inaction. or worse. apathy. The persecution of the Soviet Jewry is a violation of human rights and a deviation from any standard of equality and justice.
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