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November 21, 1985, for early progress in areas where there is common ground, including an interin agreement to luce and limit INF missiles. The SCG also reiterated its support for the ultimate goal of the total elimipation of LRINF missile systems globally. Additionally, the group supports the U.S. efforts to achieve progress in Geneva on effective INF verification measures side by side with progress on reaching agreement on reductions and limitations of LRINF missile systems, and concurrent constraints on shorter range INF systems.
The SCC reaffirmed the Alliance's readiness to modify, halt, reverse, or dispense allogether with LRINF missileleployment as part
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The SCG noted the continuing Soviet modernization programs, LRINF and SRINF missile systems. The group also recalled that the SS-20 force remains 441 launchers with 1323 nuclear warheads.
The SCG endorsed the continuing U.S. commitment to seek common ground and accelerate progress toward an INF agreement as mandated at the November summit. The group also expressed the hope that Soviet INF negotiators will join the United States negotiators in substantive and detailed negotiations at the next round of the nuclear space arms talks.
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DATE: 09/16/86
SHULTZ URGES APPROVAL OF REFUGEE ADMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS (Article on Shultz Senate testimony, Q and A) (1920)
Washington
Secretary of State Shultz has urged Congress to approve a ceiling of 70,000 refugee admissions into the United Stales during the 1987 fiscal year, which begins on October 1.
The proposed target is the same as the administration sought for the current fiscal year, but it would open the way for more refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and from Latin America.
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The secretary testified before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on migration and refugee policy September 16.
Shultz welcomed the September 15 arrival in the United States of more than 100 long-term Cuban political prisoners and their families, characterized the Soviet Union's human rights record as "abysmal," denounced Vietnam's refusal to allow so-called re-education camp political prisoners to leave the country and urged senators not to stop "screaming" over the continued Soviet refusal to allow Nicholas Daniloff, the Moscow correspondent of U.S. News and World Report, to leave the Soviet Union.
He also said he was considering a trip to Africa that would include a stop in South Africa. However, the bulk of his testimony was focused on the question of admitting refugees to the United States.
He urged support for President Reagan's recommendations, but reminded senators that, "a generous refugee admissions ceiling is nothing but numbers on a piece of paper without the money to fund the programs that the numbers represent."
Noting that the United States "historically has been a problem-solving country, " Shultz warned that, "the brutal reductions that are taking place in the general foreign affairs budget reduce our capacity to help work for solutions to these problems."
The secretary pointed out that over the past six years, the administration has spent more than 2,500 million dollars on refugee assistance and has admitted more than 500,000 refugees into the United States.
"America has done its share and more to aid those refugees who have been forced to leave their homelands because of persecution," he declared.
Pointing to the growing effort to strengthen international cooperation in dealing with refugee problems, Shultz said "the most. significant result" of this cooperation has been "the growing recognition that refugee problems are best resolved in the regions from which the refugees come.
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