I am introducing an amendment to the foreign aid authorizations bill conceming human rights in Romania. As a member of the Helsinki Commission. I participated in the Helsinki delegation to Romania this year. I was able to experience human rights conditions in Romania. I am concerned about the many Romanians persecuted and harassed by their Govemment. In the past year. Romania has taken many encouraging steps to improve human rights conditions. Emigration rates from Romania to the United States have increased this year to a total of 1.932 as of October 1987. This summer. a few longstanding prisoner of conscience cases were successfully resolved. These improvements are welcomed. but there is much to be resolved.
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