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H.Con.Res. 29 (94th)

Concurrent resolution to relieve the suppression of Soviet Jewry.

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14 January 1975

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Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Subsequently: International Relations).

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Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) call upon the Soviet Government to permit the free expression of ideas and the exercise of religion by all its citizens in accordance with the Soviet Constitution; (2) utilize formal and informal contacts with Soviet officals in an effort to secure and end to discrimination against religious minorities; (3) demand of the Soviet Government that it permit its citizens the right to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the countries of their choice as affirmed by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights; and (4) call upon the State Department to raise in the General Assembly of the United Nations the issue of the Soviet Union's transgression of the Declaration of Human Rights.

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