Today. Jews in the Soviet Union are reaping no advantages from the signature Leonid Brezhnev put on the Helsinki Accords. which pledge conformity to the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. including the right to emigrate. As many as 400.000 Jewish people would leave the U.S.S.R. if they could. Thousands of them have taken the dangerous and irreversible step of formally applying to do so. But fewer personsnot moreare being permitted to leave. And every refused application represents a broken Soviet promise and a broken individual dream. I command the Presidents announced intention to raise the emigration issue at Geneva. General Secretary Gorbachev should be made to understand that his proposals for agreements in 1985 will be received in a more favorable light if he begins living up to the agreements of 1975. We cannot have detente with the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union has detente with its own people.
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