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Co-Operation In Humanitarian And Other Fields (Basket Iii)

Volume 83: debated on Thursday 25 July 1985

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With the exception of Hungary and Poland, Eastern European countries continued to take a restrictive attitude to family visits or reunification, and binational marriages. Emigration remained generally low although in the Soviet Union a slight increase in the permitted level of Jewish emigration was recorded in April 1985 but this increase was not sustained. In the first 4 months of the year, 5,800 people were allowed to leave the GDR legally to settle in the Federal Republic of Germany, fewer than in the corresponding period in 1984. Tourist travel outside Warsaw Pact countries remained very limited, again with the exception of Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland.
In the field of information, restrictions on access to Western sources of information continued as did jamming of several Western vernacular services (except in the GDR, Hungary and Romania).