ABSTRACT: Resolution on the situation of jews in the soviet union, presented to the European Parliament on 17th February 1987 by Mr. Blumenfeld, Marco Pannella and oth.

The European Parliament,

A. having regard to the undertakings given by the Soviet Government in the Helsinki Final Act on co-operation and security to guarantee fundamental human rights, in particular freedom of religion and freedom of movement for all citizens,

B. having regard to Mr Gorbachev's proposal to hold a World Conference on Human Rights in Moscow,

C. having regard to its previous resolutions on the situation of Jews and human rights in the USSR,

D. alerted once more - in particular, through the accounts given by the relatives of refuzniks who met the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Israel in Jerusalem in December 1986 - to the desperate situation of a considerable number of Jews who wish to live in Israel and who for years have been refused exit visas, generally on specious grounds,

E. whereas exit requirements for Jews in the Soviet Union seem to have become more stringent in recent years,

1. Is concerned about the working and living conditions imposed by the Soviet Government on these people who wish to leave the Soviet Union, reflecting an anti-semitic attitude, and the alarming state of health of many of those concerned;

2. Reiterates its appeal to the Soviet Government to authorise all those Jews who have applied to leave the USSR in order to rejoin their families to do so without hindrance, especially the following persons: Ital Nudel, Josef Begun, Grigory Lemberg, Alexei Magarik,Marat Osnis, Dona Konstantinovskaya, Grogory and Natalia Rosenstein and Cherna Goldort;

3. Urges the Soviet Government once more to end its campaign of harassment,persecution and imprisonment of Jews who have expressed the wish to settle in Israel;

4. Urges the Soviet Government to ensure that the fundamental rights of these people, including the right to study and teach their language, Hebrew, are respected;

5. Calls on the Soviet Government to give practical effect to its avowed policy of openness and to take positive and genuine measures to ensure that human rights are respected in the Soviet Union by granting exit visas to all refuzniks who wish to leave the country;

6. Calls on the Foreign Ministers meeting in political co-operation to make representations to the Soviet Union with a view to ensuring that the above cases, and the problem of refuzniks as a whole , are brought to a satisfactory conclusion;

7. Calls on the Commission , the Council and the Governments of the Member States to do everything within their power to ensure that this appeal is heeded;

8. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission , the Foreign Ministers meeting in political co-operation and the Soviet Government.