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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—OCT. 16, 1986

100 STAT. 4383

Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit in society" and guarantees to everyone "the right to leave any country, including his own"; Whereas the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights guarantees that "everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own"; Whereas the Soviet Union signed the Helsinki Final Act and the Concluding Document of the Madrid Meeting, is obligated to respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Whereas Naum Meiman, member of the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group and a leader in the Soviet Jewish refusenik community, and his wife Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman have sought since 1974 and 1979, respectively, to emigrate from the Soviet Union; Whereas Doctor Meiman and Mrs. Kitrosskaya-Meiman seek to join their daughter, Mrs. Olga Plam, an American citizen, who currently resides in Boulder, Colorado; Whereas Mrs. Kitrosskaya-Meiman is terminally ill with cancer and both she and her husband, who is seventy-five years old, are in urgent need of medical treatment unavailable in the Soviet Union; Whereas at least three hundred Soviet citizens, some of whom are old or ill, repeatedly have been denied permission to rejoin their spouses or other family members in the United States; and Whereas four hundred thousand other Soviet Jews seek to emigrate from the Soviet Union: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring). That it is the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union should abide by its international commitments in the Helsinki Final Act, the Concluding Document of the Madrid Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and— (1) immediately approve the exit visa applications of Dr. Naum Meiman and Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman; (2) resolve immediately the outstanding divided spouses and separated family cases between the United States and the Soviet Union; (3) consider favorably and expeditiously the pending exit visa applications of all Soviet citizens who seek to rejoin their relatives or be reunited to their historic or national homeland; and (4) guarantee to all Soviet citizens the right to emigrate to the country of their choice. SEC. 2. The Congress calls upon the President to— (1) take every opportunity, including at the upcoming meeting with General Secretary Gorbachev in Iceland, to press the . Soviet Union to abide by its international commitments and allow the emigration of Doctor Meiman and Mrs. KitrosskayaMeiman as well as the resolution of all other outstanding , divided family and emigration cases; and (2) instruct the United States delegation to the Vienna Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, scheduled to open on November 4, 1986, to pursue vigorously the case of Doctor Meiman and Mrs. Kitrosskaya-Meiman and all outstanding divided family and emigration cases.

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