GARY ACKERMAN. TOM SAWYER. and BEN GILMAN for their participation in this briefing. The Caucus also sponsored a briefing last week on the treatment of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria in order to focus more attention on the blatant assault and forced deportations taking place there today. Equally important to recognize is the significant progress we have made In numerous areas around the world. Poland held the first free elections of a Soviet Bloc country in June and has officially recognized the Solidarity Party. Hungary. another nation on the road to democracy. has established an economy based on free market principles and a multiparty system. Now the Soviet Union realizes that they too must guarantee respect for fundamental freedoms in order to have a place in the international community. Despite the advances made in the numbers of refuseniks allowed to leave. we must maintain pressure on Moscow to enact and implement emigration legislation in adherence with the right of the individual to leave his own country clause included in the Helsinki accords. Mr. Speaker. as member of the Helsinki Commission and cochairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.
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