At the same time President Reagan has stated that he will raise the issue of human rights conditions in the Soviet Union with Mr. Gorbachev. We look forward to this exchange and hope that it will lead to significant improvements in the ability of Soviet Jews to exercise their human right to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Earlier this week. Secretary Gorbachev spoke of the effects of glasnost on human rights in the Soviet Union and the prospect of providing more opportunities for Soviet citizens to exercise their personal freedoms. He said that improvements had been made in the human rights conditions. and that a casebycase review of the individual applications for permission to emigrate would ensue. He stated that the only reason that many applicants are refused permission to emigrate is because they have had previous access to state secrets. If that is the case. the entire Soviet Union economy must operate on the basis of state secrets because almost every refusenik is denied permission to emigrate because of access to state secrets. Mr. Speaker. with many of our colleagues in the Congress and many of our fellow Americans.
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Generalizing that the entire Soviet Union economy must operate on the basis of state secrets because almost every refusenik is denied permission to emigrate because of access to state secrets.