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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION S — J U N E 21, 1982

96 STAT. 2645

Whereas such imprisonment violates the commitments to freedom of thought, conscience, expression, religion, and emigration made by the Soviet Union through its adoption of, or participation as a signatory to, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Whereas Yuriy Shukhevych suffers from various severe medical ailments, including chronic ulcer, heart, vision, and dental problems, but has not received necessary medical attention while in prison; and Whereas Yuriy Shukhevych has renounced his Soviet citizenship and has joined the Ukrainian Public Group To Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring). That it is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Government of the Soviet Union should comply with its commitments under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by providing proper medical care to Yuriy p. Shukhevych, by releasing Yuriy Shukhevych from prison, and by permitting Yuriy Shukhevych and his family to emigrate from the Soviet Union to a country of their choice; (2) the President of the United States should express to the Government of the Soviet Union the strong and continuing ^j opposition of the United States to the imprisonment and maltreatment of Yuriy Shukhevych; and (3) the President of the United States should reiterate to the Government of the Soviet Union that the United States, in evaluating its relations with other nations, will consider the extent to which such other nations honor their commitments under international law, particularly any such commitments concerning human rights. SEC. 2. The Gerk of the House of Representatives shall transmit copies of this resolution to the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States and to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. ,. Agreed to June 21, 1982.

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UKRAINIAN CITIZENS—U.S. OBJECTION TO PERSECUTION, IMPRISONMENT, AND DENIAL OF H U M A N RIGHTS Whereas on August 1, 1975, the Soviet Union and thirty-four other countries, including the United States and Canada, signed the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Helsinki, Finland; Whereas the Final Act raised the expectations of Soviet citizens of greater observance by the Soviet Union of human rights, and in order to monitor that observance, the Ukrainian Public Group To Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords was formed on November 9, 1976, in Kiev, the Ukraine;

J"ne 21, 1982 [H. Con. Res. 205]

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