Speaker. I want to express my deep concern for the treatment of the Jewish community in Syria. Right now Jews living in Syria have no freedom to emigrate or to travel freely. Additionally. Syria has maintained a policy of arrest. interrogation and imprisonment for any Jews suspected of illegally traveling or having planned to do so. The Syrian refusal to permit free emigration is a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Syria is a signatory. Mr. Speaker. in July of this year myself and 65 of my House colleagues signed a letter to Syrian President Hafez alAssad asking him to permit members of the Jewish community to leave Syria and be reunited with their families.
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