Speaker. I would like to express my staunch support for the legislation being introduced by my colleague. the gentleman from New York . on behalf of the Congressional Caucus for Ethiopian Jewry of which I am pleased to be cochairman. The legislation being introduced today urges the Government of Ethiopia to honor its commitment as a cosignatory of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. which cites free emigration as a humanitarian right to be granted to all. This bill also conditions the improvement of relations and the continuance of economic aid to the Peoples Democratic Republic of Ethiopia upon significant. tangible improvements regarding the human rights conditions of Ethiopian Jewry. These provisions. when combined with a sustained executive policy to secure the sustained emigration of Ethiopian Jews. will reunify Ethiopian families and ensure their cultural survival. The efforts expended in 1984 and 1985 with operations Moses and Joshua have not been completed. Approximately 15.000 Ethiopian Jews were separated from their families and left stranded in Ethiopia when these operations ceased.
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