§ Mr. BurtTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last raised the case of the Jewish refusenik Alex Zelichenok of Leningrad with the Soviet authorities; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Mr. EggarMr. Zelichenok's case has been raised by us on several occasions in the past. His name was included in a list of refuseniks about whom we are particularly concerned which was handed to the Soviet authorities last December. We shall be raising it again during Anglo-Soviet talks on human rights on 23 June in Moscow, when we shall be pressing for all Soviet citizens who wish to emigrate to be allowed to do so.