Mr. Speaker. yesterday President Bush announced his intention to grant the Soviet Union an additional 1year waiver of the JacksonVanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act. This amendment links United StatesSoviet trade to human rights by denying nonmarket countries mostfavorednation [MFN] trading status until they permit substantive and sustained emigration. On December 29. 1990. President Bush notified Speaker Foley that he was waiving the JacksonVanik restriction against the Soviet Union for 6 months. Six months have passed and the President has once again certified that the Soviets are living up to their commitments by allowing record numbers of Soviet citizens to emigrate. Mr. Speaker. I do not intend to oppose a waiver. The Soviets. especially during the past 2 years. have made considerable progress in their emigration practices. In 1989. according to statistics provided by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Jewish emigration was 71.217. That number more than doubled to 186.815 In 1990 and through the end of May 1991 those emigrating had already reached 73.000. The numbers for Germans are just as encouraging. In 1990. more than 148.000 ethnic Germans arrived in the Federal Republic of Germany. up by 60 percent from 98.134 in 1989.
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