Hopes for the repatriation of 800 Brazilian nationals now in the Soviet Union, most of them Jews, were expressed in the House of Representatives at Brasilia today by the Foreign Ministry. The Ministry informed Parliament that negotiations for the return of the 800 are being continued with Soviet authorities, and that beds, food and other facilities have been provided in the Brazilian Embassy in Moscow to accommodate those former Brazilians who want to return home.
Most of the 800, the Ministry stated, are Brazilians who had been born in Ukraine, Bessarabia or Bukovina, lived here for a time, adopted to Communism, went voluntarily to the USSR, found themselves disillusioned with Communism, and now want to come back. The Soviet authorities, however, claim that those who were born on Soviet soil are Soviet citizens. The Foreign Ministry stated that it supports the claims of the 800 the right to come back to this country. Previously, 105 former Brazilian nationals who had gone to the USSR had been permitted to return to this country.
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