Soviet embassy receives list of Ukrainians seeking emigration (12/31/78)

Soviet embassy receives list of Ukrainians seeking emigration

PARIS, France - Bernard Stasi, a former French government minister, on October 27 handed the Soviet embassy in Paris a list of Ukrainians who he says want to emigrate from the Soviet Union, according to Western wire services.

Mr. Stasi said that they cited the Final Act of the Helsinki Accords among their reasons for seeking emigration.

Mr. Stasi said the list was prepared by Leonid Plyushch, the former Ukrainian political prisoner who has been living in France since 1976.

The former minister, who is now deputy president and spokesman for the Centrist Party, said that he timed the presentation of the list to coincide with the current visit of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.

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