Misha Elberts remarks follow: Ladies and gentlemen. I intended to explain to you the attitude of my friends and my own to the new Complement of Rules added to the old body of Regulations for entering and leaving the U.S.S.R. and implemented since January 1. 1987. In the West this complement is usually mistakenly referred to as the New Law of Emigration. In fact. it is no more than a simple executive act of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers. The U.S.S.R. body of law provides for 3 different categories of legislative acts which form a vertically subordinative hierarchy: 1) the laws. passed and enacted by the Supreme Soviet or its Presidium. 2) the sublaws. or executive acts of different state ministries and agencies. 3) sets of rules and regulations issued by the same agencies in strict accordance to the provisions of the laws and sublaws. The only existing law explicitly governing the processes of immigration and emigration in the U.S.S.R. is the International Pact of Civil and Political Rights signed. ratified and enacted by the U.S.S.R. Clause 12 of the Pact provides for any citizen of the state. party to the treaty. the right to leave his country at will and to return to it. This clause also contains a complete list of reasons by which these rights can be restricted or abrogated.
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