Sakharov call
The dissident Soviet, physicist. Andrei Sakharov has ■ called on the West to use November’s European Security Review Conference in Madrid to put pressure on . Moscow • over Afghanistan and • its human rights performance. Dr Sakharov said the actions of . the : Western signatories of the 1975 Helsinki agreement should be “more co-ordinated, decisive and' uncompromising” in Madrid than at the last . Helsinki review conference in Belgrade. Dr Sakharov, sent into internal exile to the Volga city of Gorky in Janu- . ary because of his dissident activities, • said the worsened international , situation ■.• demanded' a tougher: response from the West towards Mos-cow.-—Moscow., .
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Press, 16 August 1980, Page 14
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