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 PUBLIC LAW 99-79—AUG. 2, 1985

99 STAT. 181

a restrictive emigration policy; Hungary continually harjasses citizens who publish or possess unofficial material; Poland outlaws the Solidarity Union, harasses and prosecutes Solidarity and human rights advocates and currently imprisons over two hundred persons for exercising their human and workers' rights; Romania maintains a repressive internal regime and seriously violates the freedoms of conscience, expression and association, as well as religious liberty and minority rights, and Whereas, meetings of Helsinki signatoiy states present impoirtant opportunities for Western democracies to call the Soviet Union and its allies to account for these human rights violations, and Whereas, at the recent Ottawa Human Rights Experts Meeting of Helsinki signatory states. East Bloc human rights violations were raised and deplored by United States Ambassador Richard Schifter and by other Western and Neutral envoys on behjilf of their respective states, and Whereas, United States Secretary of State George P. Shultz will lead the United States Delegation to the tenth anniveirsary commemoration of the signing of the Final Act: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That— Human rights. (1) the Congress strongly reaffirms the human rights principles and humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and the Madrid Concluding Document; (2) the Congress recognizes and condemns continued East Bloc violations of international obligations under the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Hel- 59 Stat. I03i. sinki Final Act, the Madrid Concluding Document, and other relevant international instruments; (3) the Congress requests that the President of the United States direct the United States Department of State to convey to the Soviet Union and its allies the United States deep and abiding human rights concerns; (4) the Congress urges the President to direct the United States Department of State to take full advantage of the opportunities provided by all upcoming meetings of Helsinki signatory states to call the Soviet Union and its allies to account for ongoing human rights violations and to work constructively

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