Since 1984. Kaisas parents. many organizations and individuals. including 110 Members of Congress. have made repeated attempts to secure Kaisas release. Instead of acting positively toward these request. the Soviet Government continually has harassed the childs grandmother. with whom Kaisa is staying. threatened to send Kaisa to an orphanage. and told the Randperes. "You will never see her again." Such is the Soviet Unions shameless attitude toward family reunification. The Bern meeting provides us with a forum to reemphasize our commitment to realizing the humanitarian goal of bringing families together rather than forcing them to live apart. My fellow Commissioners and I hope that this meeting will result in concrete actions on the part of the Soviet Union and its East European allies to facilitate human contracts between our citizens.
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