Delegate refuses
NZPA-Reuter Ottawa The chief Soviet delegate to a human rights conference refused to accept a letter at the week-end to the Soviet leader, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, from United States Congressmen protesting against the Soviet Union’s human rights record. The delegate, Mr Vsevold Sofinsky, said he did not
want to be a postman, said Senator Alfonse D’Amato, one of six Congressmen who flew to Ottawa to present the letter. Mr Sofinsky met with the Congressmen for 90 minutes, but refused to accept their letter to Mr Gorbachev, which expressed deep concern “about the continued incarceration of thousands of prisoners of conscience.”
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