Mr. President. since enactment of the JacksonVanik amendment nearly 20 years ago. the United States has stood strongly for free emigration. Now we have it. And all that has been requested are loan guarantees. We had hoped that with the end of Operation Desert Storm that it would be in the fall of 1991. Now in April 1992 we still do not have this humanitarian aid for the Russian Jews. This action is inconsistent with this longstanding United States commitment which would have been to provide loan guarantees to help Israel resettle hundreds of thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union.
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