I am proposing with Senator BYRD an amendment to the State Department authorization bill condemning Bulgarias treatment of its ethnic Turkish minority. which accounts for over 10 percent of the population in Bulgaria. This amendment includes language which is identical to Senate Concurrent Resolution 46. which I submitted on June 15. It calls upon the Bulgarian authorities to immedlately cease all discriminatory practices against its Turkish minority and to honor its international obligations and public statements concerning the right of all Bulgarian citizens to emigrate freely. The amendment also urges the administration to raise these issues at all appropriate international fora. including the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [CSCE] meeting on the environment scheduled to take place in October in Sofia. Bulgaria.
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