§ Mr. Bendallasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make further representations to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics about Elena Gurevich; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. RifkindWe have made clear on numerous occasions our concern at the refusal of the Soviet authorities to allow Jewish and other Soviet citizens who wish to leave the Soviet Union to do so. I raised this question most recently with Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Kornienko during my visit to Moscow in July. We shall continue to press the Soviet authorities to adopt a more reasonable attitude to the question of emigration and family reunification, and shall seek to ensure that the many individual cases involved, including that of Miss Gurevich, are not lost from view.