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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—OCT. 1, 1986

ity to support the struggle for achievement of human rights of Ukrainians and other peoples living under Soviet domination; Whereas the Soviet Union continues to violate the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and other international human rights declarations and covenants by denying to the citizens of Ukraine and other Soviet Republics rights of national identity and basic human rights through intensified russification, ethnocide, repression, and imprisonment, of the citizens of Ukraine and other Soviet Republics who lawfully engage in calling the Soviet Government to account for violations of human, national, and religious rights as well as the rights of family reunification and emigration; and Whereas the blatant disregard by the Soviet Union of the humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and other international human rights declarations and covenants, in particular its persecution of the members of Ukrainian and other public Helsinki Monitoring Groups, contribute to tensions between East and West and give rise to doubts about Soviet commitments to their international obligations: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), SECTION 1. DISCUSSIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION CONCERNING THE UKRAINIAN AND OTHER PUBLIC HELSINKI MONITORING GROUPS.

It is the sense of Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should firmly insist at the Vienna Review Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and at all other appropriate opportunities for discussions with the leadership of the Communist Party and Government of the Soviet Union, that— (1) imprisoned and exiled members of the Ukrainian and other public Helsinki Monitoring Groups in the Soviet Union be released from their incarceration in the spirit of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and '^l (2) members of the Ukrainian and other public Helsinki Monitoring Groups be allowed to emigrate to the countries of their choice. SEC. 2. INFORMATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC.

22 USC 3001.

It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Secretary of State should ensure that the United ^, States consulate in Kiev reports on Soviet human rights viola* ' tions in the Ukrainian Republic, and (2) information provided by that consulate.on those violations 2 should be included in the semiannual reports on compliance pursuant to Public Law 94-304. SEC. 3. TRANSMITTAL OF RESOLUTION TO PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE.
 * ' with the Helsinki Final Act which are submitted by the President to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Secretary of State. Agreed to October 1, 1986.

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