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C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift. Published by RESEARCH CENTER FOR RELIGION AND 4 7 5 RIVERSIDE DRIVE HUMAN RIGHTS IN CLOSED SOCIETIES NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10115, USA
212-870-2481 or2440 !Hi / Blahoslav S. Hruby kl-JrljJI~ Executive Director and Editor /~~J RESEARCH CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CLOSED SOCIETIES Publishers of RCDA-Religion in Communist Dominated Areas FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
•GLASlfOST' AND COMKU10ST EUROPE•
Marymount University, 2807 North Glebe Road, Arlingt.on, VA 22207
May 18-20, 1988
You are cordially invited to RCDA 's conference which will focus on a very timely topic, "Glasnost' and Communist Europe," just a few days before the summit meeting between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev in Moscow. We are planning to discuss the situation of religion and human rights in all Communist states in Europe - Albania, the Baltic countries, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR, and Yugoslavia. In addition, special lectures will examine the impact of Gorbachev' s policies on Communist Europe and on the Communist Party.
All subjects will be addressed by experts in those particular areas, including Dr. Albert Boiter; Joan Dodek, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews; Mihajlo Mihajlov (Yugoslavia); Victor Nakas, Lithuanian Information Center (Baltic states); Nicolas Pentcheff (Bulgaria); Ayshe Seytmuratova (Crimean Tatars and Soviet Muslims); Prof. Nikolaos A. Stavrou (Albania), and others.
The proceedings of the conference will be covered by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. A press conference will be held on May 19th from 10:30 to 11:30 AM, at which many of the speakers may be fur ther probed.
A detailed program of the conference will be available at the end of Apgl.
The registration, room and all meals are $ 150 per person ($ 280 per couple). Participants from the Washingt.on, D.C., area will pay $ 60 for regis tration, two luncheons and two dinners.
Please make your reservation as soon as possible - the number of ac commodations is limited. Checks are payable to RCDA.
For additional information write to RCDA, 475 Riverside Drive, S. 448, New York, NY 10115, or call 212-870-2481.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference! Dedicated to the Cause of WORLDWIDE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM and HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH CENTER for N"" RELIGION and HUMAN RIGHTS in CWSED SOCIETIES
Tbe purpose of the Research Center is to collect, process, evaluate, translate and disseminate materials concerning religious freedom and other human rights in totalitarian countries. It provides information and docu mentation to government agencies, interna tional organizations, media and public. It organizes actions on behalf of persecuted Mrs. Natalia Solzhenitsyn addressing an RCDA press religious and political dissidents. Among those conference. Her interpreter is the Very Reverend whose case it had championed were: Leonid Kishkovsky, Assistant Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America, and Vice President Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ofRCDA. Rev. Georgi Vins, Vladimir Bukovsky, This is what Mrs. Solzhenitsyn said of her rll'st encounter with our journal: .9' Alexander Ginzburg, N "I had in my hands the journal RCDA, and Anatoly Shcharansky, simply could not believe my eyes. And I saw there a detailed description of the difficulties Rev. Jan Simsa, of the monks in the Pochayev monastery. I Jiri Lederer, read one of the appeals of Father Gleb Yakunin. I read analyses and commentaries Vladimir Feltsman, about religious life of our country which could Tatiana Osipova, well have been written by one of us living in and the Siberian Seven. the USSR. And I ran with the journal to Alexander Isayevich [Solzhenitsyn] and cried The Research Center publishes RCDA to him: 'Look, look! In the West they know Religion in Communist Dominated Areas, the everything!' A little time went by and we soon only scholarly publication in the USA special learned that in the West they knew very little izing in reports on, and analysis of, the religious and understood very little, and that such people situation m Communist countries, with as Blahoslav Hruby and his wife Olga belong particular focus on the violation of religious - as always has been true in the past - to a freedom and human rights. very, very small flock." FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Hon. Gus Yatron, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee.
CONFERENCE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
HON. GUS YATRON of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives Monday, June 8, 1987
MR. YATRON: Mr. Speaker, I rise to apprise my colleagues of the fourth annual conference of Religion in Communist Dominated Areas [RCDA] at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. RCDA endeavors to promote respect for religious Dedicated to the Cause freedom, and enhance public awareness of the problems encountered by individuals attempting tc exercise this of fundamental. internationally recognized right in Commu nist societies. As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights and International WORLDWIDE Organizations. I share those objectives. RCDA has done an outstanding job. and is widely respected for its work in this field. It has made a significant RELIGIOUS FREEDOM contribution to the cause of human rights and to the activities of the subcommittee. Last year. I conducted and hearings on religious persecution in the Soviet Union, and drew heavily on RCDA publications. conferences, and other resources. Its work has also provided the foundation HUMAN RIGHTS for many of the subcommittee's investigations and legislative activities. The subcommittee has been represented at the three previous conferences at Marymount University. The subjects have always been extremely timely, and relevant. This year's topic. 'The Millennium of the Christianization of Rus' and Religious Freedom and Human Rights in the Soviet Union," proved to be just as worthwhile and informational. The list of speakers and participants was most impressive. and brought together a wealth of expertise which assured success. I am convinced that efforts like these do make an important difference. Governments rarely admit that pressures created by such activities lead to positive results. But. prisoners are released. and at times conditions are eased because of public concern. In fact. I believe that some of the positive gestures which have occurred in Eastern Europe recently can be attributed to the constant work of RCDA and other important organizations. including the many concerned Members of Congress. RCDA 475 Riverside Drive, s. 448 Nev York, NY 10115 Tel. 212-870-2481
REGISTRATION FORM
I shall attend the RCDA conference "Glasnost' and Communist Europe" at Marymoung University, Arlington, Virginia, on May 18-20, 1988.
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April 12, 1988
Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary of the Communist Party Moskva, Kremel Generalnomu Sekretaryu TsK KPSS Moscow, USSR
Dear Gen~ral Secretary Gorbachev:
I urgently appeal to you for the release of Petras Grazulis, the Lithuanian dissident imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp. I, and most Lithuanian-Americans, believe that he is an innocent man, and should be released immediately.
You have initiated a policy that you call "Glastnost." How can anyone believe that you are sincere in the implementation of this policy when a young man is imprisoned unjustly for merely participating in an Independence Day celebration?
If you are genuinely serious about mending the rift in trust between the Soviet Union and the West, I urge you to immediately use your good offices to see that this young man regains his freedom. Anything short of this will be perceived as just another Soviet propaganda attempt and will seriously undermine any further "Glastnost" activities.
I, the Lithuanian-American community, and a multitude of other concerned Americans anxiously await your reply. Please give this matter you immediate attention.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Paulius Klimas cc: Yuri V. Dubinan Soviet Ambassador Washington, D.C., USA For Immediate Release Release #88-4-01 Contact: Brad Dunlap April 12, 1988 (716) 232-14!'5
NEWS RELEASE
ROCHESTERIAN PROTESTS INPRISONNENT OF LITHUANIAN DISSIDENT
ROCHESTER, N. Y. --- Paulius Klimas, a local substitute teacher and shoe salesman will walk from Rochester to Washingt·on, D. C. to personally deliver an urgent plea to President Reagan, asking for the President's support in obtaining the immediate release of Lithuanian dissident Petras Grazulis from a Soviet labor camp. According to the Lithuanian Information Center in Washington, Grazulis is the first Lithuanian dissident to be sentenced during Soviet General Secretary
Gorbachev 's Glastnost/Perestroika period. The 29-year old Grazulis had already fulfilled his .two-year mandatory period in the Soviet Army and refused to attend a
"military refresher course." Dissidents are often "convicted" of such charges as a result of attending demonstrations or supporting human rights causes, according to the Lithuanian Information Center. Grazulis had attended Independence Recognition Day ceremonies in Riga, Latvia last November.
Klimas, a Lithuanian-American, has sent General Secretary Gorbachev advance notice of his "Glastnost for Grazulis" program, and intends to deliver a number of petitions and letters from other concerned Lithuanian-Americans to the Soviet Embassy when he arrives in Washington in late May.
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FBIS-SOV-88-078 22 April 1988 13 ANNEX
the staunchness and determination of the revolutionary The Estonian professional organizations want changes in forces and their ability to break the resistance of the the Soviet and Estonian constitutions to guarantee them obsolete social feelings and structures. economic and cultural autonomy and the right to deter mine their own future. Such changes should also reduce Estonian Intellectuals' Demands Detailed the power of the central bodies in Moscow to make ml.220758 Madrid EL PAIS in Spanish decisions affecting Estonian territory. Furthermore they 15 Apr 88 p 5-FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY urge the introduction of a law defining the responsibili ties of the authorities and guaranteeing the republics [Pilar Bonet dispatch: "Estonian Intellectuals Condemn equal rights in the formation of these bodies and in state Soviet Political Centralism, Demand Autonomy '1& decisionmaking. The republics, they say, must also be their Republic"] represented in Soviet foreign policy.
[Text] Tallin-Seven Estonian intellectual professional The proposed economic decentralization would give organizations have condemned Soviet political central priority to local bodies. Relations between the Soviet ism and demanded for their republic autonomy unprec republics would be based on the principles of "mutual edented within the USSR. In two concise and restrained beneficial exchange" and Estonia would be declared a documents addressed to the communist authorities and totally self-managed "special economic area" in I 991, the upcoming CPSU conference, the Estonian intellectu according to the proposals. The intell~ctuals condemn als present a broad range of demands, including a precise the bureaucracy of the central and local government legal definition of the republic's right of sovereignty, apparatus. The state institutions, they say, cause Estonia which is envisagea in abstract terms by the Soviet economic losses, encourage uncontrolled immigration, Constitution. They also urge a radical reform of govern and create industries dependent on the state that take no mental structure to transfer complete economic, cultural, account of Estonia's interests and threaten "ecological ~and political responsibilities from Moscow to Estonia. disaster."
The documents, to which EL PAIS has had access The intellectuals expressed their "dissatisfaction" with constitute the most complete nationalist platform facing the administration of Estonian Communist Party chief Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet leadership. Behind them lie K. Vayno and of Chairman of the Council of Ministers the official organizations of architects, journalists, cin B. Saul. ema workers, composers, writers, theater workers and artists of the Estonian Republic, which joined the USSR The documents urge the publication of a complete list of in 1940, having been an independent state for 2 decades. those subjected to Stalinist repression since 1941, the erection of a monument to them, and the establishment SOVETSKAYA ESTONIY A, the Estonian Communist of real social monitoring of the police to avert provoca Partx's Russian language newspaper, published a diluted tive and dangerous activities. The signatories also call version of the documents 8 April. The documents were for an end to the use of the republic's paper and printing approved only a few days after a joint plenum of the works to publish books in Russian intended for the state lea?erships of the Estonian artistic professional organi market, and for the publication of more books in Esto zations. The plenum lasted 20 hours, "in an atmosphere . nian. of open and exciting discussion," according to one of those present. Estonia (which accounts for 0.2 percent of the USSR's territory) has a population of 1.6 million, Academic Cooperation Protocol Signed With Japan 61 .3 percent of whom are Estonians, while the rest are mi11145 Tokyo YOMIURI SHIMBUN in Japanese the result of large-scale Russian economic immigration. 19 Apr 88 Morning Edition p 2-FOR OFFICIAL USE Est?nia's economic prosperity and the development of ONLY an industry administered from Moscow attracted to the republic inhabitants of neighboring poorer regions of [By correspondent Fuse] Russia. [Text] Moscow, 18 Apr-A protocol on Japanese-Soviet The Estonian nation is threatened by a "population academic cooperation was signed between Shigeyoshi crisis" and is in a "state of decline," the intellectuals Matsumae, president of the Japan External Cultural warn the communist leadership, whom they urge to Association, and Marchuk, president of the Academy of formulate measures "of a more radical nature to achieve Sciences of the USSR, on 18 April. The protocol is aimed a negative figure" in immigration. State enterprises at exchanging scholars and promoting joint research. established in Estonia pay a certain amount (in Tallin, Based on the protocol signed, Japan and the Soviet the capital, R 16,000) for every new worker "imported" Union will conduct 12 joint research programs, prima to the republic. rily in the electronics field, this year.
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-VI SA- Viaiis International for Soviet& and Americana -8 "13 A - VISA PO Box 2361 Berkeley, California 94702 (415) 540·YISA
IURGENT ACTION APPEALI
Linas Kojelis Special Assistant The White House~Public Liaison Washington, DC 20500
Dear Linas:
In 1987, the lOOth U.S. Congress unanimously passed S. Con. Res. 29 and H. Con. Res. 68 (405-0). These Resolutions called on the President and his Administration to promote "unrestricted family visits" between millions of relatives in the USA and USSR, and to "raise the issue of family visitation at all appropriate opportunities." This basic right, which affects the lives of so many Americans, deserves more than the scant mention it received at the Washington Summit.
Before the 1985 Geneva Summit, President Reagan stated:" ... the cause of peace would be well served if more individuals and families ... could come to know each other in a personal way." Unfortunately, relatives, some as close and parent and child, find it difficult or impossible to exchange visits in their homes like normal people.
We receive many calls and letters from people denied visas. For example, a recent caller and her two children were denied visas. They wanted to visit her aged parents who have never seen their grandchildren. Even the relative of a White House staff member was denied a visa to the U .5. Why were they turned down? Because: · 1.) Soviet policy tightly controls travel in both directions. 2.) The U.S. has no coordinated policy on family visits. Emigration and visitation are separate issues for many Americans of various ethnic groups and U.S. policy must focus equall¥ on both.
An estimated 3 million Americans try to maintain contact with their loved ones in the Soviet Union and the Baltic States in spite of many obstacles. At present, few Soviet citizens are allowed to visit relatives in the USA, and Americans usually must take an expensive, guided tour to see their family in the Soviet Union. I'm sure you agree it is a basic human right for parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, and cousins to exchange visits in their homes.
Millions of Am~ns need your help to get a prominent place for family visits on the Moscow Summit agenda. Please...., vour position to correct this injustice and to bring this issue to the attention of President Reagan and Secretary of State Shultz: 1.) Remind them of the Resolutions which Congress passed unanimously (copy enclosed). 2.) Ask them to speak out publicly about the issue of family visits. 3.) Ask them to raise the family visits issue and promote the enclosed Recommendations for liberalized travel procedures.
Please send VISA a copy of your letter to the President and Secretary of State and their reply.
Sincerely,
Tamara Horodysky, Chair April 4, 1988
V1SA is a Project of the World Without War Council of Northam California • Berkeley Recommendations for Liberalized US-USSR Travel Procedures The ideal situation for relatives would be elimination of all Visa requirements. and for American and their relatives in the SoViet Union and the Baltic States to be allowed to travel with only a valid passport. Until such time, the followtng changes are recommended: 1. Establish a procedure for quick actlon in cases of serious illness or death. 2. El1m1nate the 4-6 month-long 1nv1tation (vyzov) process for Visitor's (private) Visas. 3. Remove all relationship requirements for private V1Sits. 4. Simplify forms. 5. Allow Americans the right to stay in their relattve's homes. a. Allow prtvate Visitor's Visas to stay With relattves in their homes. rather than requiring Americans to take tours. b. For those Americans who prefer to combine a tour with Visits to relatives. increase the length of time permitted in each city (now llmited to 3 or 4 days except in major cities). c. Open up closed cities to Americans beyond the present llmit of about 90 cities for overnight stays and an additional 90 for day trips. 6. Allow Soviet citizens to travel and to stav in American homes. a. Eliminate the current 200 ruble V1Sa fee for Sovtet citizens (over one month's average safaty. or 4 to 5 months pension for a ~ollecttve farmer). b. Allow more young people to travel to the West. c. Allow families to travel together. d. Increase period of validity of travel permission/international passports. 7. Open up more entry I exit points into the Soviet Union and the Baltic States. Also, improve other means of communication: reinstate direct dial telephone communications: remove prohibitive duties from gift parcels; stop mail censorship and ensure delivery of all mail.
12. 1988 it~ ~fc\ltJ~orl<~im.es SATURDAY.MARCH ~•JC f.' ~ Letters
For Soviet Emigres, Family Visits Still Difficult
To the Editor: Before the 1985 Geneva summit "Human Rights Promise. and Each year in a recent six-year peri od. an average of 980 Americans re· meeting. President Reagan said, "the Promises" (editorial. Feb. 23) notes cause of peace would be well served if in passing the loosening of travel re· ceived permission to stay in rela· lives' homes. It takes four to six more individuals and families ... stncuons for relatives m the United could come to know each other in a States and Soviet Union. Unfortunate· months to receive such a visa, while a tourist visa takes only a few weeks. A personal way." Unfonunately, the ly, while 1987 brought some improve Governments' interpretation means ments, Soviet restrictions on family separate visa is needed to visit rela· tives in different regions. that "cultural exchanges" and "citi· visits remam more onerous than for zen diplomacy" nourish, while rela· em1grauon. Jn 1987. 5.700 Soviet citizens Visited relatives in the United States, an in· lives in the two countries find their Our Government and the media difficulties in maintaming normal focus on emigration from the Soviet crease from an average of 1,500 of human contacts continue. Union. and all but ignore the need for past years. A visa to the West costs Visits International for Soviets and millions of relatives. including recent 200 rubles, about a month's salary, or immigrants. to visit loved ones. Emi· Americans, VISA, of which J am a five months' pension for a aillective chairwoman, advocates simpllfytng gration and Visiting are separate but farmer. Travelers are mostly retired related issues for many Americans, people, and two members of one travel procedures for family visits. and United States policy should focus family may rarely travel together. We recommend eliminating Visa fees equally on both. and official invitation procedure, al· While we welcome the recent lowing home visiU, opening more Jn 1987, recent emigres were first changes in Soviet poiicy, they are allowed to return to the Soviet Union. cities and creating a method for quick woefully inadequate when measured action in cases of serious illness or However, like the millions of Amer against the needs of three mi!Uon icans of earlier emigrations, they death. TAMARA HORODYSKY Americans of Armenian. ByeJonas Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 26, 1988 must take tours to see their loved sian, Estonian. Jewish, Latvian, Lith· ones. They must stay in expensive uanian, Russian, Ukrainian or other hotels restricted to foreigners and descent who maintain contact with are usually limited to stays of three relatives in the Soviet Union. or four days m all except the ma1or Soviet cities.
VISA - Human rights advoates of exchanged family visits between millions of related people of many nationalities and ethnic groups in the USA and USSR. VISA •PO Box 2361 • Berkelcv, California 94702 • (415) 540- VISA Please urge the President to place the family visits Issue on the US-Soviet agenda - Senate Concurrent Resolution 29 unanimously p~d July 29, 1987. House Concurrent Resolution 68 unanimously passed (405-0) October 27, 1987
lOOlh CONGRESS Congressiona(~cord FIRST SESSION House Concurrent Resolution 68 Senate Concurrent Resolution 29
who have wed other fonns of communie&tions, such u mail Expressing the sense or Congress regarding telephone, telegraph. Ind gift parcels have experienced the inability or American citizens to maintain enormous difficulties; regular contact with relatives in the Soviet Union Whereas because of resttictive Soviet policies, less than 1,000 of the many thousmds of Americm.s who visited the Soviet Whereas millions of United States citizens, including members Union in 1986 were allowed a private visa to stay with their of national and ethnic groups such as Armenians, relatives in their homes, Ind only about 1,.500 Soviet citi:z.ens Byelorussians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Latvians, were allowed to visit their relatives in the United States; Lithuanians, Poles, Rusiians, and Ukrainians, have relatives in Witereas many Ameri.::ans who h•Ye been frusttated by the the Soviet Union; delay or denial in obtaining private visas to visit family Whereas the Soviet Union. as a signatory of the 1975 Final Act members in their homes in the Soviet Union have resorted to of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe, joining package tours to the Soviet Union a.s a means of commonly known as the Helsinki Accords, committed itself to seeing their family members; "favourably consider applications for ttavel with the purpose of Whereas relatives should be able to comfort md assist each allowing persons to enter or leave their territory temporarily, other in the event of medjcal emergencies such as those which and on a regular basis if desired, in order to visit members of resulted from the Chomobyl disaster, or when specialized their families."; medical treatment is not available in a particular counlJ')'; Whereas in that same document the Soviet Union pledged that Whereas in the case of serious illness or death the vactim's "applications for temporary visits to meet members of ... relatives should be guaranteed expeditious determination of families will be dealt with without distinction as to country of their visa applications; origin or destination ... ; cases of urgent necessity - such as Whereas family visitation is an issue which transcends political serious illness or death - will be given priority treatmenL"; differences, and govemmc:rus which permit normal and Whereas the Soviet Union has ratified the United Nations regular family visitation demonstrate a comrnittnent to basic Charter and signed other international human rights documents values of decency md fairness which are shared by all such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political mankind; and Rights. documents which clearly protect the right to leave Whereas at the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation one's country and return thereto; in Europe Follow-up Meeting, the United States delegation Whereas in anticipation of the Geneva Summit Conference of enumerated the inappropriate restrictions placed by Soviet November 1985, President Reagan stated," ... the cause of lllthorities on Soviet citizens who wish to travel abroad and peace would be served if more individuals and families ... on United States citizens who wish to visit family members in could come to know each other in a personal way."; the Soviet Union: Now, ~efore, be it Whereas home visits would immeasura1'ly aid our understanding Resnlvt>t! by the HoV!<' of R'!pr'!~enJatives a.nd lr.e Senate. of the Soviet people and improve relations with the Soviet That it is the sense or the Congress that - Union. since family visitation is one of the most basic forms of (1) the promotion or unrestricted family visits between cultural exchange; related people in the United States and the Soviet Whereas it is not proper for governments to decide which Union is an essential part or American policy toward relationships constitute close family ties for the purpose of the Soviet Union; and determining which relatives should be allowed to visit each (2) the President, the ~etary or State, and other other; members or the administration should raise the issue Whereas the present policies of the Soviet Union make it or ramiJy visitation at alJ appropriate opportunities virtually impossible for the millions of relatives in the two in discussion with the leadership or the Communist countries to exchange visits in their homes, md relatives Party and the Government or the Soviet Union.
House Concurrent Resolution 68 introduced by Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) on March S, 1987. Senate Concurrent Resolution 29 inttoduced by Dennis DcConcini (0-Ariz), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Paul Simon (0-Ill), Bill Bradley (D-NJ), Al D'Amato (R-NY), Frank Lautenberg (0-NJ). and Pete Wilson (R-Calif) on March 11, 1987.
VISA - Human rights advocates of visiu between millions of related people of many national and ethruc 1roups in the USA and CSSR A Project of the World Without War Council of Northern California, 1n oraaruutioo which, since 1958, links peace, freedom, and human rightJ concerns VISA• P08ox2361 • Bcrkeley,Califomia 94702 • (•IS}S40·VISA J vpl '.S (Q ~' THE WHITE HOUSE C1l.__ WASHINGTON /' Vt (
6 ~".,., )\L D1AndrLA.. x'12t/S- LIETUVIV l~FORMACIJOS CENTRAS 351 Highland Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11207 Tel. (718) 647-2434 Telex No. 5101013171 March 3. 1988 Contact: Ginte Damusis For innediate release
25 SENATa\S ASK SOVIET JUSTICE MINISTER TO FREE PRIEST FRCM LABCR CAW (Washington, March 3. LIC) Twenty-five members of the U.S. Senate appealed to a Soviet minister today for the release from labor camp of a Roman Catholic priest serving a 10-year sentence for his religious activism. In a March 3 letter, the legislators urged Soviet Justice Minister Boris Vasi lyevich Kravtsov to use his authority on behalf of Father Alfonsas Svarinskas, a 63-year-old Lithuanian priest arrested in 1983 and convicted of "anti-constitutional and anti-state activities. " The letter pointed to Fr . Svarinskas's religious activism as the cause of his imprisonment. citing his role as one of the founders in 1978 of the Catholic Committee for the Defense of Believers' Rights, an unofficial group formed to document and speak out against state-sanctioned discrimination of Roman Catholics in Lithuania . The group was forced to go underground in 1983 fol lowing the arrests of Fr. Svarinskas and Fr . Sigitas TamkeviCius. another founding member. and threats against remaining members . Providing specific examples of Fr . Svarinskas's religious activism, including his leadership in the Cat ho I ic teflllerance movement and his protests against government harassment of clergy, the Senators questioned the reasons for his continued iflllrisonment. "We fail to see how any of these activities could be construed as anti-state or anti-constitutional . They seem to us to represent normal actions taken in furtherance of religious expression. and would hope that this right would be protected under your pol icy of glasnost." Fr. Svarinskas was arrested for the third time on January 26, 1983, and convicted to a seven-year term in labor caflll and three years of internal exile. He was first illllrisoned in 1946 and has spent more than 20 years in Soviet labor camps. Svarinskas and Fr. Sigitas TamkeviCius are the only two Roman Catholic priests from Lithuania still in labor callll. Since their arrest , both priests have been the subjects of numerous petitions to Soviet officials signed by hundreds of thousands of Catholics in Lithuania . The most recent petition. containing 78,000 signatures, was submitted to the Central Committee of the CPSU in November 1987. The Senators' letter comes in the wake of Congressional testimony in which the ranking State Department official on human rights matters invited members of Congress to join the Reagan administration in pressing for the release of the two jailed priests. Speaking before the House Foreign Affairs LIETUVIV INFORMACIJOS CENTRAS 351 Highland Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11207 Tel. (718) 647-2434 Telex No. 5101013171 M3rch 15. 1988 Contact: Ginte Oamusis
For i11111ediate release
LITHUANIANS BLOCKED FRCJA ATTENDING UNAUTHCRIZED NATIONALITIES CONFERENCE IN L«)SC()W
(Vilnius, March 15. LIC) Soviet authorities forbade Lithuanians to participate in the unofficial press club Glasnost conference on nationality issues in Moscow on M3rch 11-12, reports Lithuanian Information Center.
According to news received by the Lithuanian Information Center. Antanas Terleckas, Dr . Algirdas StatkeviCius, Vytautas BoguSis and Andrius TuCkus planned to go, but were blocked from doing so by Soviet officials.
Antanas Terleckas and Miss Ni jole SadOnaite were cal led into the General Prosecutor's office, where interrogator Kiri lenka cautioned Terleckas against going to Moscow. Nijole SadOnaite was not able to travel due to i I lness.
Dr. Algirdas StatkeviCius. who holds American citizenship and plans to emigrate to the U.S .. had hoped to attend the conference as a member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group.While preparing for departure on M3rch 11 for the Moscow conference. he was detained at the Vilnius train station by a mi I itia and KGB escort headed by KGB Colonel CesnaviCius. StatkeviCius was taken to mi I itia headquarters where his things were searched without a warrant . Soviet officials then cashed-in his train ticket. returned his money and ordered him home.
Vytautas BoguSis and Andrius TuCkus did not travel to Moscow because it became clear that they would also be detained.
The seminar on nationality issues had already been postponed from an originally scheduled date in December 1987 . The nationalities session was cancel led when several ethnic representatives. among them Armenians. Lithuanians and Ukrainians, were detained as they made their way to Moscow. On December 11, Miss Ni jole Sadonaite. escorted by Vytautas BoguSis and Antanas Terleckas to the Vilnius train station, was detained and prevented from making the trip. The 70 participants gathered at the M3rch 12-13 seminar issued a declaration condemning Soviet actions restricting the travel of Lithuanians and other nationality representatives to the Moscow conference.
- 30 - THE WHITE HOUSE Off ice of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 23, 1988 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT ANNOUNCEMENT OF MOSCOW SUMMIT The Rose Garden
11:54 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: A very brief announcement -- we've bequn our meetings and, of course, as you know, they're going to resume. We've only had a short time together, the Foreign Minister and myself. But can announce that it has been agreed, the Moscow summit will be from May 29th through June 3rd -- June 2nd -- I'm sorry -- June 2nd. May 29, June 2nd. Mr. Minister, do you have any -- Q Mr. President, do you think you'll have an arms control treaty by then, sir? Q Do you think you'll have an arms control treaty to sign at that summit when you go to Moscow, sir? THE PRESIDENT: I have no way to answer that now. We're -- Q Can you make enough progress to at least have agreement in principle, Mr. President? THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think we had an agreement in principle that even led to this before we even started. Both sides had said we want to look toward a certain proportionate decrease in arms. Q Then why aren't you going to sign one? Q What will you accomplish then, sir, at the -- THE PRESIDENT: What? Q What will you accomplish with a summit if you cannot sign an agreement? THE PRESIDENT: Well, there are a number of other subjects that we continue to discuss with each other. Q Will you only go to Moscow? THE PRESIDENT: Look, I can't -- we Q Have you made progress on verification, Mr. President? What are the obstacles? The Intelligence Committee is warning that the Soviets might cheat. THE PRESIDENT: I can't report on anything else. Andrea, I can't take any further questions. Q Mr. Foreign Minister, can we ask you a question, sir? FOREIGN MINISTER SHEVARDNADZE: We have set the date, and now we shall take care of good substance, good content for the summit. MORE - 2 -
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HELSINKI 86 URGES LA'IVIA.~S TO COM.\fEMORATE MARCH 25 DEPORTATION VICTD·!S
Rockville, ~ - The Latvian human rights group HELSINKI 86 has invited all residents of Latvia to join them in Riga on Friday, March 25 to commemorate the victims of a mass deportation on March 25, 1949.
In a communique signed by the "Coordination Center" of HELSI:\1G 86, the group invites people to lay flowers at the Freedom Monument in Riga on March 25. According to HELSINKI 86 leader, Dr. Juris Vidins, a physician and former Communist Party member, HELSINKI 86 members would lay wreaths at the monument at 1830 local time.
The announcement comes in the wake of March 4 article in the Latvian Communist Party newspaper "Cina", which stated that 43,231 persons were deported from Latvia on March 25, 1949. This is the first time such an exact figure has ever been published.
The March 25, 1949 action was part of an effort to speed up the forced collectivization of Latvia. The 1949 deportations, which struck all three Baltic States simultaneously, were considerably larger than the the deportations of June 14, 1941, which were publically commemorated for the first time by over 5,000 Latvians last summer. The Freedom Monument was also the site of an August 23, 1987 rally, which attracted an estimated 10,000 persons marking the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Since the June 14, 1987 rally the Soviet Latvian press has begun to admit that mass deportations did occur during Stalin's rule. Latvian Communist Party First Secretary Boris Puga has even endorsed the idea of a memorial to the victims of the deportations.
Although last summer's June 14 and August 23 rallies encountered minimal official interference , subsequent attempts to observe Baltic independence day anniversaries (November in Latvia, February in Lithuania and Estonia) were blocked. with various degrees of success, by armed militia in the three Baltic capitals.
Riga city authorities have been notified of the planned March 25 rally. As of yet, no official response has been received.
While there is no confirmation of similar rallies being planned in Lithuania and Estonia, Arvi Orula, an Estonian activist expelled to Sweden on ~arch 5 said a demonstration in Tallin was likely.
P.O. BOX 4016. ROCKVILLE. ~D. 20850 U.S.A. Td. (3011340-7646 -VI SA- Visits International for Soviets and Americans -8 H 3A - VISA PO Box 2361 Berkeley, Callfornla 94702 (415) 540-VISA
Board of Advisors
Zlnta Arums Vladimir Bukovsky Gary Carpenter Robert Conquest Anatoly Koryagin Dietrich Loeber John Martinson William Muir Linas Kojelis Bozhena Olshaniwsky Special Assistant to the President Yuri Orlov Robert Pickus Office of Public Liaison Mari-Ann Rikken The White House Philip Siegelman Vytas S!iupas Nina Strokata-Karavanska Dear Linas: George Weigel Aaron Wildavsky Yuri Yarim-Agaev Enclosed is some material we are sending to State, NSC, Helsinki Commission, and Chairman others regarding the improvement of the family visits procedures for relatives.
Daniel Horodysky The key to real improvement is if the President speaks out about the issue. That Co-chair would set policy for State and others. Tamara Horodysky It would be a major step if a PUBLIC CEREMONY for the passage of the Resolution can be arranged prior to the Moscow Summit.
Best regards,
Daniel and Tamara Horodysky February 10, 1988
VISA is a Project of the Wortd Without War Council of Northern California • Berkeley VISA PO Box 2361 Berkeley, California 94702 (415) 540-VISA
Board of Advisors lmta Arums MEMO February 8, 1988 Vladimir Bukovsky Gary Carpenter Robert Conquest From: VISA Anatoly Koryagin Dietrich Loeber To: John Whitehead, Deputy Secretary of State John Martinson Richard Shifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs: William Muir Bozhena Olshaniwsky Attn. Katherine Chumachenko Yuri Orlov Rozanne Ridgway, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Robert Pickus Mari-Ann Rikken Affairs Philip Siegelman US State Department Soviet Desk: Mark Parris Vytas Sliupas Nina Strokata-Karavanska Kathleen Lang George Weigel Fritz Ennarth, Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs, NSC Aaron Wildavsky Yuri Yarim-Agaev Llsa Jameson, Director for European and Soviet Affairs, NSC Warren Zimmerman, Ambassador to Vienna CSCE Conference Chairman Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Attn. Orest Deychak Steny Hoyer, chairman CSCE Co-chair Dennis DeConcini, co-chairman CSCE --7 Christopher Smith, member CSCE Tamar• Horodysky There are about 3 million persons in the USA who try to maintain contact with relatives in the USSR. According to Soviet sources, in the period between 1980-1985, 9,547 Soviet citizens went to the USA for family visits, and 5,892 Americans visited their relatives in the Soviet Union on a "private visa". In 1987 the number of Soviet citizens visiting American relatives increased to 5700. Thousands of Americans visit relatives during the course of a tour. For example, six travel agencies in the US specialize in tours to the Ukrainian SSR. Others specialize in the Baltic States, a~d Armenian, Byelorussian, Russian Republics. These tours are expensive and impersonal. Relatives may live great distances from the 80 or so Intourist cities, and elderly and infirmed people may have difficulty in making the long trip; those hospitalized find it impossible. Intourist hotels generally are off-limits for Soviet cf'ftzens - even for those trying to inquire at the desk. If they want to visit relatives, most Americans apply for a tourist visa because it is quick and easy. Soviet Consulate instructions state that a visitor's visa "may take more than 4 months for your application to be processed." The same instructions state, "In case your do not want to wait for a visitor permit you may arrange to go to the USSR as a tourist within a couple of weeks and meet your relatives in one of the points included in your route of journey. ... For further information contact your travel agent or the Soviet Intourist office in New York." At the San Francisco Soviet Consulate leaflets of local travel agents are conveniently located next to the information window. Enclosed are a list of recommendations to facilitate family visits and supplementary information.
Daniel and Tamara Horodysky
VISA is a Project of the World Without War Council of Northern Calitomia • Berkeley VISA MFMO February 8, 1988
Recommendations
In order to facilitate family visits between the USA and the USSR, procedures should be simplified as much as possible. Relatives should be able to exchange visits with the least amount of savemmental interference. Visits by relatives should be easier than official, stranger-to-stranger, or cultural exchanges.
1. We recommend all visas be eliminated and that American and Soviet citizens who wish to visit each be allowed to travel with only a valid passport.
According to the New York Times (1/2/88) Izvestia reported (1/1/88) that Soviet citizens may now travel to the Eastern Bloc countries without getting visas. Our sources say that Soviet citizens need to receive a stamp, presumably on a passport, from their local militia.
The Helsinki Accords state: "Applications for temporary visits to meet members of their families will be dealt with without distinction as to rountry of origin or destination. .. " Therefore, Soviet procedures should administer travel to the 34 Helsinki countries equally, and allow their citizens to travel to the West without visas. By the same token, US procedures should be equal for citizens of the · Warsaw pact, Canada and Europe.
Until such time, we recommend the following changes:
2. Eliminate the invitation (vyzov) process.
The invitation procedure only increases the expense and waiting period (4 months or more) for applicants. Soviet officials now claim that Soviet citizens wishing to visit first degree relatives in the West no longer need a legalized invitation. Allegedly, they only need to walk into an OVIR office, say that they want to visit their relatives in the West and are issued a visa. Our sources say that those applying still use the usual invitation (vyzov) procedure.
An American who wishes to visit relatives in two different areas of the Soviet Union needs to fill out separate invitation applications for each relative. Since the Soviet consulate will not answer any questions pertaining to the status of an invitation, there should be no need for an official, legalized invitation processed by a Consulate in either direction.
3. Eliminate the current 200 ruble visa fee for Soviet citizens.
Prior to 1/1/88, a visa to the Eastern Bloc from the Soviet Union cost 20 rubles, while it still rosts 200 rubles to the West. Retired people have been the main beneficiaries of the relatively few visitor's visas allowed, and a collective farmer receives a pension of about 40 or 50 rubles. In the Helsinki Accords the Soviets agreed to grant permission to visit relatives without regard for country of origin or destination, therefore there should be no fee required to travel to the West.
4. Establish a procedure for quick action in cases of serious illness or death.
Provide a method for granting permission in one or two days directly by a Soviet Consulate using telephone/telegram/fax/overnight mail. For example, an American who wants to visit a dying relative should be able to have an Intourist licensed travel agency send a telegram or overnight letter to the Consulate requesting permission, and receive official permission by overnight mail. Similarly, a Soviet citizen should be able to receive permission through OVIR and the US consulate. VISA Mr MO February 8, 1988
5. . Allow more Americans to stay in Soviet homes and more Soviet citizens to visit US homes.
Remove all relationship requirements for private visits. The US-Soviet exchange program allows complete strangers and cultural groups to exchange visits in their homes. Our Governments should allow anyone to exchange visits, including third cousins and friends, rathei: than stipulating that only parents, children, brothers and sisters can issue invitations for visits.
6. Allow young people and families to travel together.
Soviet policy usually permits only one member of a family to travel to the West, requiring that a "hostage" be left behind. East Germany allowed 3 million citizens, including 1.5 million young people to travel to West Germany in 1987. Very few defected. The People's Republic of China expects 100,000 persons for family visits from Taiwan alone in 1988.
7. Open up more entry/exit points into the Soviet Union.
Moscow is now the primary transit point for the Soviet Union; additional points are needed in both in the European region of the Soviet Union and on the Pacific Coast of the USSR Alaskan & Siberian natives who wish to visit their relatives living three miles away across the Bering Strait need an entry /exit point near their homes. Each of the Baltic Republics, Armenia, Byelorussia, Western Ukraine and Russia should have additional entry /exit points. For example, Lvov Airport was once an international airport providing a route from Vienna, Prague, and Budapest into Western Ukraine.
8. Increase period of validity of travel permission/international passports.
Under present Soviet policy visas are valid for six months - for one trip. One application procedure should allow multiple trips for an extended period of time. Hungary now provides international passports valid for five years and permitting unlimited travel during that period.
9. Increase length of time tourists can spend in one city.
Some Americans prefer to visit relatives during the course of a tour. To provide them with that option, Soviets should remove the present 3 or 4 day limit for stays in most cities.
10. Open up closed cities.
The Soviet Union and the United States should open all parts of their countries to foreign travel, except for military and research installations. Some cities are known to be off-limits because of the presence of a missile site some distance away. The closing of many missile bases because of INF & future arms control agreements should allow for the opening of many additional areas.
11. Simplify forms.
Soviet citizens must fill out the same form for emigration or visitation. Forms filled out by Americans must now be filled out in Russian. This should be changed to permit English or any other official language used in the USSR such as Armenian, Lithuanian, or Ukrainian.
12. Improve other means of communications for relatives.
Reinstate direct dial telephone communications; remove prohibitive duties from gift parcels; remove censorship of mail and ensure delivery of all mail. Please urge the President to place the family visits issue on the US-Soviet agenda - Senate Concurrent Resolution 29 unanimously passed July 29, 1987. House Concurrent Resolution 68 unanimously passed (405-0) October 27, 1987
lOOth CONGRESS Congressiona[ 1\f,cord FIRST SESSION House Concurrent Resolution 68 United States a/ America Senate Concurrent Resolution 29 Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the inability of American citizens to maintain regular contact with relatives in the Soviet Union
Whereas millions of United States citizens, including Whereas because of restrictive Soviet policies, less than members of national and ethnic groups such as Armenians, 1,000 of the many thousands of Americans who visited the Byelorussians, Estonians, Gennans, Jews, Latvians, Soviet Union in 1986 were allowed a private visa to stay Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians, have relatives with their relatives in their homes, and only about 1,500 in the Soviet Union; Soviet citizens were allowed to visit their relatives in the Whereas the Soviet Union, as a signatory of the 1975 Final United States; Act of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Whereas many Americans who have been frustrated by the Europe, commonly known as the Helsinki Accords, com delay or denial in obtaining private visas to visit family mitted itself to "favourably consider applications for travel members in their homes in the Soviet Union have resorted with the purpose of allowing persons to enter or leave their to joining package tours to the Soviet Union as a means of territory temporarily, and on a regular basis if desired, in seeing their family members; order to visit members of their families."; Whereas relatives should be able to comfort and assist each Whereas in that same document the Soviet Union pledged other in the event of medical emergencies such as those that "applications for temporary visits to meet members of which resulted from the Chomobyl disaster, or when ... families will be dealt with without distinction as to specialized medical treatment is not available in a particular country of origin or destination ... ; cases of urgent neces country; sity - such as serious illness or death - will be given Whereas in the case of serious illness or death the victim's priority treatment."; relatives should be guaranteed expeditious determination of Whereas the Soviet Union has ratified the United Nations their visa applications; Charter and signed other international human rights Whereas family visitation is an issue which transcends polit documents such as the International Covenant on Civil and ical differences, and governments which pennit nonnal and Political Rights, documents which clearly protect the right regular family visitation demonstrate a commitment to to leave one's country and return thereto; basic values of decency and fairness which are shared by all Whereas in anticipation of the Geneva Summit Conference mankind; and of November 1985, President Reagan stated," ... the cause Whereas at the Vienna Conference on Security and Coop of peace would be served if more individuals and families .. eration in Europe Follow-up Meeting, the United States . could come to know each other in a personal way."; delegation enumerated the inappropriate restrictions placed Whereas home visits would immeasurably aid our under by Soviet authorities on Soviet citizens who wish to travel standing of the Soviet people and improve relations with abroad and on United States citizens who wish to visit the Soviet Union, since family visitation is one of the most family members in the Soviet Union: Now, therefore, be it basic forms of cultural exchange; Resolved by the House of Representatives and the Senate, Whereas it is not proper for governments to decide which That it is the sense of the Congress that - relationships constitute close family ties for the purpose of (1) the promotion of unrestricted family visits between related detennining which relatives should be allowed to visit each people in the United States and the Soviet Union is an other; essential part of American policy toward the Soviet Union; Whereas the present policies of the Soviet Union make it and virtually impossible for the millions of relatives in the two (2) the President, the Secretary of State, and other members of countries to exchange visits in their homes, and relatives the administration should raise the issue of family visitation who have used other forms of communication, such as mail, at all appropriate opportunities in discussion with the telephone, telegraph, and gift parcels have experienced leadership of the Communist Party and the Government of enormous difficulties; the Soviet Union.
VISA - Human Rights Advocates of visits between millions of related people of many national and ethnic groups in the USA and USSR A Project of the World Without War Council of Northern California, an organization which, since 1958, links peace, freedom, and hwnan rights concerns VISA • PO Box 2361 • Berkeley CA 94702 • (415) 540-VISA PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING VISITOR'S VISA FROM THE USSR TO THE USA
GENERAL INFORMATION:
In order to visit the USA, a person residing in the USSR must have an invitation, known as a ''Vyzov", from a person, usually a relative, in the USA. The Invitation or Vyzov is a notarized application form which is merely an invitation - it is not a visa. The Invitation must be submitted to the local OVIR (Office of Visas and Registration), or miltia (police) along with a passport and visa application. A USSR Council of Ministers decree in effect January 1, 1987, states that "Application for temporary departure from the USSR for personal reasons is considered in as short a time as possible, and as a rule, in the course of a month, and if the trip is connected with a serious illness or death of a relative, in the space of 3 days."
INVITATION PROCEDURE
1. An Invitation application form may be obtained from a Soviet consulate in Washington, OC, or San Francisco, California, or from VISA at the address below. Two (2) copies of a notarized Invitation for each applicant is necessary (except for children under 16 accompanying a parent.) 2. The Invitation should be written in Russian and English. 3. The Invitation must state the relationship between the sponsor and the person in the USSR, and mention the sponsor's ability and willingness to assume full support of the invited person, including housing and medical expenses. 4. The Invitation must be notarized by a local notary public in the USA. The notary public's signature and seal must then be certified by the local County Clerk. 5. The two (2) copies of the notarized Invitation application with attached local County Clerk certification must be sent to the Soviet Consular Division, 1825 Phelps Place NW, Washington, OC 20008 [telephone (202) 332-1513 or 332-0737] or Soviet Consulate, 2790 Green St., San Francisco, CA 94123 [telephone (415) 922-6642] for legalization with a check or money order for $15.00 per person. 6. The Soviet Consulate will return one (1) copy of the legalized Invitation to you. Make a photocopy for your records and send the legalized Invitation directly to the invited person in the USSR. We strongly recommend registered air mail with return receipt. Note: The Soviet Consulate will not answer any questions as to the status of the application after it is made by the person in the USSR. 7. Your relative must present the Invitation to a local OVIR office or the local militia. Successful applicants pay 200 rubles per person for a temporary exit visa. 8. The applicant need not notify the US Embassy in advance that a Soviet exit visa was received, but only needs to appear at the US Embassy any working day (Monday through Friday, other than US and Soviet holidays) with Soviet passport and visa, two photographs and address of US sponsor. A US visa is normally issued the same day to a qualified applicant.
Applicants in the USSR may correspond with the US Embassy as may be necessary, in English or Russian, if they wish to inform the Embassy of the exact date and place that an Invitation application is made to OVIR, and/ or is refused by OVIR. The address is Consular Section, US Embassy, Ulitsa Chaikovskogo 19 /23, Moscow 123242, USSR [telephone 252-24-51]. Correspondence from the USA may be sent to Consular Section, US Embassy, APO New York, NY 09862.
If exit permission is denied, US citizens may make formal complaint to the US Congressional Helsinki Commission (CSCE), House Annex #2, Room 237, Washington, OC 20515 [telephone (202) 225- 1901] and Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Human Rights & Humanitarian Affairs, US State Department, Washington, DC 20520 [telephone (202) 647-9454). If permission is denied, please request a Family Visit Survey form from VISA to document your case.
VISA - Nonprofit, human rights advocates of family visits between relatives in the USA and USSR. VISA • PO Box 2361 • Berkele , California 94702 • tele hone (415) 540-VISA
Please send your tax deductible donation to VISA so we may continue and expand our work. IlPIIr.IAIIIEHHE B COE,ZJJIHEHHbIE IIITATbl AMEPJIRII INVITATION TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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H0Tap11yc Notary Public PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING VISITOR'S VISA FROM THE USA TO THE USSR GENERAL INFORMATION:
In order to obtain a visa to visit the USSR, a person residing in the USA must receive an official permit from Soviet authorities. The person must complete an application which needs to be "verified and registered" by a Soviet Consulate. The application is then mailed to one's relatives who tum it over to local Soviet authorities. A USSR Council of Ministers decree effective January 1, 1987, states "Application for temporary departure from the USSR for personal reasons is considered in as short a time as possible, and as a rule, in the course of a month, and if the trip is connected with a serious illness or death of a relative, in the space of 3 days." Temporary entry visas should take the same amount of time.
INVITATION PROCEDURE
1. An application form and instructions may be obtained from a Soviet Consulate in Washington, DC, or San Francisco, California, any travel agent who handles Intourist, or from VISA at the address below. 2. The Invitation must be written in Russian (English portion is optional), in triplicate, and all questions must be answered. 3. Each person is required to fill out an application except children under 16 years of age who are included in the parent's application. Separate applications are required for visiting relatives in different republics or regions. 4. Black and white passport type photos with front view on a white background are preferred. Children under 16 years of age should appear in group photos with an adult. Dark or tinted glasses and machine photos are unacceptable. 5. Send completed application forms for processing to the Soviet Consular Division, 1825 Phelps Place NW, Washington, DC 20008 [telephone (202) 332-1513 or 332-0737] or Soviet Consulate, 2790 Green St., San Francisco, CA 94123 [telephone (415) 922-6642], along with a check or money order for $10 per application. 6. Send registered application to relatives in the USSR, who then submit it to the local OVIR or militia (police). The permit is valid for one year, and may not be extended. 7. In order to obtain your visa, you must present the permit and your passport (photocopy of passport acceptable) in person or by mail to a Soviet consulate, along with two passport type photos, a ten ($10) dollar check or money order for each person/visa, and your exact travel plans. A visa will usually be issued in 7 to 14 days.
Note: Keep photo copies of all documents. We strongly recommend registered mail with return receipt. The Soviet Consulate claims it will not answer any questions as to the status of the application while it is being considered by Soviet authorities.
US citizens may make formal complaints about denial of entry permission to the US Congressional Helsinki Commission (CSCE), House Annex #2, Room 237, Washington, DC 20515 [telephone (202) 225-1901] and Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Human Rights & Humanitarian Affairs, US State Department, Washington, DC 20520 [telephone (202) 647-9454]. If permission is denied, please request a Family Visit Survey form from VISA to document your case.
VISA - Nonprofit, human rights advocates of family visits between relatives in the USA and USSR. VISA • PO Box 2361 • Berkeley, California 94702 • tele hone (415) 540-VISA
Please send your tax deductible donation to VISA so we may continue and expand our work. •
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I decla;e that the data given in the Questionnaire are correc t Date 5I 3a11e.1mo, '!TO Bee ll3HHble, yKa3aHHble B aHKeTe, llBJll!fOTCl! npaBHJlbHb!MH .].a Ta Personal signature ------___ _ JG:! " ----·· - - - - - . CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE: FINAL ACT, HELSINKI, 1975
The States participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Reaffinning their objective of promoting better relations among themselves ... Reaffirming, in conformity with their membership in the United Nations and in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations ... The participating States will respect human rights and fundamental freedoms ... The participating States recognize the universal significance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for which is an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation among themselves as among all States. They will constantly respect these rights and freedoms in their mutual relations ... In the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms, the participating States will act in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They will also fulfill their obligations as set forth in the international declarations and agreements in this field, including inter alia the International Covenants on Human Rights, by which they may be bound.
CO-OPERATION IN HUMANITARIAN AND OTHER FIELDS
The participating States, Desiring to contribute to the strengthening of peace and understanding among peoples... , Conscious that increased cultural and educational exchanges, broader dissemination of information, contacts between people, and the solution of humanitarian problems will contribute to the attainment of these aims ... Determined therefore to cooperate among themselves, irrespective of their political, economic and social systems, in order to create better conditions in the in the above fields, to develop and strengthen existing forms of co-operation and to work out new ways and means appropriate to these aims, Conuinced that this cooperation should take place in full respect for the principles guiding relations among participating States ... Haue 12dopted the following:
1. Human Contacts
The participating States, Express their intention now to proceed to the implementation of the following:
In order to promote further development of contacts on the basis of family ties the participating States will favourably consider applications for travel with the purpose of allowing persons to enter or leave their territory temporarily, and on a regular basis if desired, in order to visit members of their families. Applications for temporary visits to meet members of their families will be dealt with without distinction as to country of origin or destination: existing requirements for travel documents and visas will be effected within reasonable time limits; cases of urgent necessity - such as serious illness or death - will be given priority treatment. They will take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that the fees for official travel documents and visas are acceptable. They confirm that the presentation of an application concerning contacts on the basis of family ties will not modify the rights and obligations of the applicant or of members of his family.
Wherefore, the undersigned High Representatives of the participating States, mindful of the high political significance which they attach to the results of the Conference, and declaring their determination to act in accordance with the provisions contained in the above texts, have subscribed their signatures below:
The United States of America: GERALD R. FORD, Presidmt of Utt UnitM Stlltts of Ammai
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: L. BREJNEV, Gennal Steretary of tht CC of tM CPSU
[plus High Representatives of 33 other States]
- - From The Departmen.J of State Bulletin of September 1, 1975 102 NAMES !ON OUTPUT LIST • I · C/1 & I cs gs REPORT DATE: 01 APR 88
NAME NAME
The onorable Morris B. Abram 1, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Mr. George C. Basta and Garrison President 1 85 Avenue of the Americas ___ American Sokol Ne ·York , NY _l.Q_O..l!L - .... ~--··~------6424 West Cermak Road Berwyn, IL 60402 Dr.------Kazys Ambrozaitis President, Chairman of the Board Mr. Lee Bellinger Lithuanian American Community President National Council Conservative Action Foundation 35 Crest Drive 1326 G Street, SE Dune Acres Washington, DC 20003 Chesterton, IN 46304 Dr. Julius Belso Mr. Carl A. Anderson President Suit~ \~1~ Hungarian American Republican 2300 treet, NW National Federation Washingt , DC 20037 12 Cotter Drive New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Mr. Edmund w. Aobb Jr. Chairman r . Ignatius Bi1linsky Institute for Religion President and Democracy Ukrainian Congress Committee Suite 900 of America 729 15th Street, NW 325 Dreshertown Road Washington, DC 20005 Fort Washington, PA 19034
Dr. Ben Armstrong Dr. Manfredo Borges President Chairman The National Religious Broadcasters Ethnic American Council Post Off ice Box 2254R 948 West Randolph Morristown, NJ 07960 Chicago, IL 60607
Dr. Stasys Backis Dr. Marianne Bouvier 2622 16th Street, NW National Vice President Washington, DC 20009 German American National Congress --.,__...------·- Suite 102 st Reverend Paulius Bal~akis 9380 McKnight Road 361 Highland Boulevard Pittsburgh, PA 15237 Brooklyn, NY 11207 ...______
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The Honorable Patrick J. Buchanan 1819 H Street, NW 1017 Sc:ivjl.l.P Lane Washington, DC 20006 McLean, VA 22101 Mr. John P. Comer Mr. Peter Buzilovich National CoJJlT!'\ander Congress of Russian-Americans American Legion Post Office Box 818 1608 K. Street, NW Nyack, NY 10960 Washington, DC 20006
Right Reverend Martin Canavan Mr. Joseph Coors Supreme President President and Chief The Provjdence Association of Executive officer Ukrainian Catholics in America Adolph Coors Company 817 North Franklin Street Fort Worth Art t-!useum Philadelphia, PA 19123 100 Castle Rock Drive Golden, CO 80401 Mr. Richard W. Carlson Director Ms. Ginte Damusis Voice of America Associate Director 330 Independence Avenue, SW Lithuanian Catholic Religious Aid Washirgtcn, DC 20547 351 Highland Boulevard Brooklyn, NY 11207 The Honorable Gerald P. Carmen National Chairman Mrs. Midge Deeter Citizens for America Executive Director Std t.e 320 Committee for thP Fn=~e World 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE 211 East 51st Street Washington, DC 20002 New York, NY 10022
Mr. Chhoeur Chhut The Honorable Edward ,.J. Derwinski President Counselor Cambodian A.merican Foundation Department of State 3425 Bantry Way Code C- Room 7250 Olney, MD 20832 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 Ms. Pamela Cohen President Ms. Paula Dobriansky Union of Councils for 3616 Windfield Lane Soviet Jews Washington, DC 20007 Suite 410
PAGE: 2 csgs REPORT DATE: n~ APR 88
NAME NAMF.
Mrs. Leslie Dutton 215 21st Place Dr. John O. Flis Santa Monica, CA 90402 Supreme President Ukrainian National Mr. Edward G. Dykla Associatic~, Inc. President Post Office Box 17A Polish Roman Catholic 30 Mo:rtgrmery Street Union of America Jersey City, NJ 07303 984 Milwaukee Avenue Chicago, IL 606~2 Mr. Jose Antonio Font Executjve Director Mr. Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. Cuban-American National Foundation Chairman Suite 601 Republica.:r N2.tj orwl Cornrni ttee 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW 310 First Street, SE Washington, DC 20007 Washir.gton, DC 20003 The Honorable Malcolm S. Fo~bes Jr. Mrs. Anna Faltus Chairman/Chief Executive Officer Washington Representative Editor-in-Chief Czechoslovak National Council Forbes Magazines, Ire.; Suite 610 60 Fifth Avenue 1101 New Hampshire Avenue, NW New York, NY 10011 Washington, DC ?0037 Miss Georgia M. Gabor Ms. Christine Featherstone 365 G - Maribosa Avenue Executive Director Sierra-Madre, CA 91024 Council for National Policy 311 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E. The Reverend Florian M. Gal P/1.GF: 3 csgs REPORT DATE: 01 APR BG NAME NAME Mr. Istvan B. Gereben International Executive Secretary 10th Floor Coordinating Committee of Ftir:gc:.rian 322 8th Avenue Organizations in North America New Yer~, NY 10001 4101 Blackpool Road P-ockville, MD 20853 Mr. Kent R. Hill Executive Director Mr. Christopher Gersten The Institute on Religion Executive Director and Dernocrac~,r National Jewish Coalition Suite 900 Suite 100 729 15th Street, NW 415 2nd Street, NE Washington, DC 20005 Washington, DC 20002 Ms. T. Horodysky Mr. Boris Z. Gorbis Editor President Vi:SA Russian Repuhlican Club Post Office Box 23~1 Suite 518 Berkeley, CA 94702 7080 Hollywood Bouleva.rc Los Angeles, CA 90028 The Reverend BlahoslAv S. Hruby Executive Director Dr. Ernest Gordon Research Center for Religion ar.d President, Creed Human Rights in CLosed Societies 787 Princeton - Kingston Road 475 Riverside Drive Princeton, NJ 08540 New York, NY JOJ15 Mr. Gintaras Grusas ~r. Dana Huestis 5559 Modena Place Presider..t Agoura, CA 91301 The Associated Genera] Contractors of America Mr. Anthony Harrigan 1957 E StrFet, NW President Washington, DC 20006 United States Business and Industrial Council Major General Evan Hultman (PP.t.) 220 National Press Building Executive Director 14th and F Streets, NW Reserve Officers Association of W2ahington, DC 20045 the United States J Constitution Avenue, NE Mr. John Healey Washington, DC 20002 Executive Director American Section; Amnesty PAGE: 4 cs gs REPORT DATE: 01 APR 88 NAME NAME Mr. Charles Judd Bishop of Stamford Vice P~esident and Ukrainian Catholic Diocese Executive Director of Stamford The Liherty Federation 161 Glenh.rook Roac Suite 300 Stamford, CT 06902 717 2nd Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Mr. Habibullah Mayar Chairman Mr. Vytautas Kamantas Afghan Community in America President 139-15 95th Avenue Lithuanian World Community, Inc. Jamaica, NY 11346 5620 South C~arernont Avenue Chicago, IL 60636 Mr. Aloysius A. Mazewski President Dr. D. James Kennedy Polish American ConarPSE Coral Ridge Presbyteria~ Church 6100 North Cicero Avenue 5555 North Federal Highway Chicago, IL G0646 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308 Mrs. N~dia K. McConnell Mrs. Beverly LaHaye 2745 N. Radford Street President Arlington, VA 22207 Concerne.a Women for America Suite 800 Mr. Paul W. Meek 122 C Street, NW Project Director Washington, DC 20001 IPG Suite 1000 Mr. Aristids Lambergs 1411 K Street, N.W. President Washington, DC 20005 American Latvian Association i-n United States Dr. Thomas P. Melady 400 Hurley Avenue Sacred Heart University Rockville, MD 20850 637 Rock Ridge Road Fairfield, CT 06430 Mrs. Casimira S. Lenard Director, Washington Office Very Reverend Robert Mo~kal Polish American CongrPss Supreme President Suite 325A Providence AsPociation of 1625 I Street, NW Ukrainian Catholics Washington, DC 20006 5720 State Road Parma, OH 44134 Most Reverend Basil H. Losten PAGE~ 5 csc;rs REPOFT DATE: 01 APR 88 NAME NAME Most Reverend MPtyslaw Post Office Box 4016 Archbishop of New Jersey Rockville, MD 20850 Ukrainian Orthod0x Cturch St. Andrew's Memorial Church Mrs. Mary Pawlak Post Office Box 495 President South Bound Brook, NJ 08880 Alliance of Polee of 1'.rnerica 69GG Broadway Avenue Dr. John B. Nadas Cleveland, OH 44105 National President National FPderation of Mr. Carlos Perez American Hunqarian.s Chairman 1450 Grace Avenue Concerned Citizens for Cleveland, OH 44107 Dem0cracy, Inc. Post Office Box 141030 Mr. Viktoras Nakas Coral Gables, FL 33114 Washington Branch Manager Lithuanian Information Center Mr. Avo Piirisild Suite 940 Pres3.dent 733 15th Street, NW Baltic Ar'lerican Freedom League Washington, DC 20005 6943 Goodland Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91605 Mr. Casimir Oksas President Mr. Juozas Polikaitis Captive Nati0ns Council President. of Illinois Lithuanian Catholic 10520 South Hamilton Avenue Federation Ateitis Chicago, IL 60643 7 2 3 5 E:0vth Sa.crarnento Avenue Chicago, IL 60629 Mr. Ivan Oleksyn President 'ler~r P.everenC. Victor S. Potapov Ukrainian Fraternal ~ssociation Russian Orthodox Cathedral of 440 Wyoming Avenue St. John the Baptist Scranton, PA 18503 4001 Seventeenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 Ms. Eugenia Ordynsky #417 Ms. Marivi Prado 1730 Rhode Island Avenue, N.W Chairman of the Board Washington, DC 20036 Cuban Women for Human Rights, Inc. Post Office box 452605 Dr. Olgerts Pavlovskis Miami, FL 332452605 President. World Federation of Free Latvians PAGE: 6 csgs REPORT DATE: 01 APTI 88 NA.MF The Reverend Casimir Pugevicius Mr. Juhan Simonson Director President Lithuanian-AJnf'rican Catholic Estonian American National Council Services ~1 Shady Lane Drive 351 Highland Eculevard Lakewood, NJ 08701 Brooklyn, NY 11207 Mr. Ihor Sochan Mrs. Phylljs Roh0rts President National President Plast, Ukrainian Youth General Federation of Orga~ization, Inc. Women's Clubs 144 Second Avenue 1734 N Street, NW New York, NY 10003 Washington, DC 20036 Mr. David Somerville Dr. Leopold S. Rozboril Vice-PresiC:..ent President National Citizens' Coalitjon Czechoslovak National Council Suite 907 of America 100 Adelaide Street West Room 202 Toronto, Ontario, 2137 South Lombard Avenue Cana<'!a MSB 1S3 Cicero, IL 60650 Mr. Chhang Song Mr. Mohamad Nabi Salehi Director Resident Representative Save Cambodia, Inc. Islamic Unity of Afghanistin Suite 100 Mujahideen 4620 Lee Highway 5101 Fleming Drive Arlington, VA 22207 Annandale, VA 22003 !~s. Pat Sowick Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly VOA President 330 Independence Avenue, S.W. Eagle Forum Washington, DC 20547 68 Fairmount Alton, IL 62002 Mr. Jack Stevens Executive Director Mr. Richard D. Sellers Citizens for Americ0. President Suite 320 Concerned Citizens 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE 3115 N Street, NW Washingto~, DC 20002 Washington, DC 20007 PAGE: 7 cs gs REPORT DATE: 01 APR 88 Most Reverend Stephen Sulyk 717 2nd Street, NE Archbishop-Metropolitan Washington, DC 20002 of Philadelphia Ukrainian Cathcl~c Metropolitan The Honorable William B. Walsh Jr. i\rch PAGE: 8