Speaker. I am pleased to join my colleagues today in participating in the Third Annual Congressional Fast and Prayer Vigil for Soviet Jewry. It is vital that each one of us continues to reaffirm a strong commitment to those Jews in the Soviet Union who are denied the right to practice their religion or to emigrate. We have witnessed a drastic decline in Soviet emigration from a high of 51.320 in 1979 to the 1984 total of 896. I am hopeful that human rights will take its part in the arms control negotiations finally begun between the United States and the Soviet Union. Our Government must place this issue on its agenda not only to express our commitment to human rights but to question Soviet disregard for abiding by Its international agreements.
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