Speech #1010049189

I think we need to remember why JacksonVanik was passed and what we were saying at the time when it was passed in the mid1970s. In the mid1980s. and probably in the mid1990s you will have any number of countries that will not have uur standard of freedom of speech. freedom of press. search and seizure. trial by jury. We will have many countries that will not. if that were applied to them. meet the Helsinki standards. But what we said in JacksonVanik was there was one very important right and that is the right to emigrate. to leave your country. They abuse you. They take away our religious liberties.