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NSIAD-85-57 1 (1985-03-01)

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BY THE US, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE


,Report To The Chairman Of The Commission

On Security And Cooperation In Europe










Helsinki Commission: The First 8 Years







The Commission on Security and Coopera-
tion in Europe was established by law in
1976 to monitor and promote compliance
with the human rights and other provisions
of the international Helsinki accords of
1975 and to monitor and encourage U.S.
governmental and private programs seeking
to expand East-West economic and cultural
cooperation. The Commission--composed
of 12 members of Congress and 3 executive
branch representatives--has concentrated
largely on the first of those mandates.

With a small professional staff, the Com-
mission has (1) actively promoted a strong
U.S. human rights policy in the Helsinki pro-
cess, (2) played a major role in planning and
conducting U.S. Helsinki diplomacy, (3)
made itself a principal Western source of
information on Soviet and East European
violations, and (4) helped resolve numerous
family reunification cases for Eastern vic-
tims of Communist repression.





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