Pyatras Pakenas. Sergei Petrov. Leonid Scheiba. and Andrei Zhitkov) permission to emigrate with their family members to the United States and be reunited with their spouses. and (2) To give special consideration to cases that have remained unresolved for many years. the longest of which is the case of Galina Goltzman Michelson and her daughter and grandson. As of this moment. 32 of our colleagues have joined me as cosponsors of this resolution. I hope it will be reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations in the very near future so that it may be signed by the President before the December 7. 1987. summit meeting. As former chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europebetter known as the Helsinki Commission. I am particularly concerned over the failure of the Soviet Union to honor its promises in the Helsinki Final Act on this subject. The final act. which Leonid Brezhnev signed in Helsinki for the Soviet Union on August 1. 1975. provides as follows: The participating States will deal in a positive and humanitarian spirit with the applications of persons who wish to be reunited with members of their family. with special attention being given to requests of an urgent charactersuch as requests submitted by persons who are ill or old. and In dealing with requests from couples from different participating States. once married. to enable them and the minor children of their marriage to transfer their permanent residence to a State in which either one is normally a resident. the participating States will also apply the provisions accepted for family reunification. While there has recently been some good progress in resolving these outstanding cases. Antonette Bohonovsky is still separated from her fiance.
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