Mr. President. I rise today to speak on behalf of an estimated 350.000 Soviet Jews who have been refused the freedom of emigration. We have witnessed their suffering and heard their pleas. Through the Congressional Call to Conscience. I reaffirm our demand that the Soviet Union adhere to international conventions and humanitarian concerns by granting them their right to free movement beyond Soviet borders. The situation is bleak. Emigration has dropped from a high of over 50.000 in 1979 to just over 1.000 in 1985. Moreover. those remaining in the Soviet Union continue to be subjected to intolerable violations of human rights. including harassment. searches. job loss. arrests and imprisonment.
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