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531 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড January, sounded like one more propaganda demonstration in favour of well known themes they need for a European Security Conference, the need for peace in Vietnam and in the Middle East, the need to resist "neo-colonialism" in Africa, the need to end the arms race, and so on. So many speeches have been made about these themes before, and so many resolutions passed, that the problems would all have been solved long ago, if speeches and resolutions were enough to solve them. But the untiring Secretary General Romesh Chandra set out on a tour of Latin America to recruit "to go to Budapest, was hard at work recruiting in Cuba in February, and visited Venezuela. Seven hundred "delegates" from one hundred and twenty four countries the figure announced at the opening session in Budapest today (Thursday) is quite an impressive piece of organisation', seven if some of the "delegates' represent practically nobody other than themselves. Others, on the other hand, are figures of genuine political importance in their own countries. The Budapest conference beard flattering messages, at its opening session, from the Head of State of the Soviet Union, Presided Podgomy. Needless to say, he did not mention Pakistan or the needs of the refugees from East Pakistan who have flooded into India. On the other band the General Secretary of the Hungarian "Patriotic People's Front" spoke about "unsettled conflicts, crises and bloody armed struggles, which threaten the lives of whole regions." Secretary General Romesh Chandra firmly believes that the situation in East Pakistan comes into that category, and his supporters at the. Budapest meeting will do all they can until the meeting ends next Sunday to persuade their fellow delegates that the Communist Parties of India and of East Pakistan are right in urging that all possible help and encouragement should be given to the complete splitting off of East Pakistan from West Pakistan. In official eyes in Moscow, this is an embarrassing and unwelcome move. It will be interesting to see, at the end of the conference, if Romesh Chandra is re-elected Secretary General of the organisation or not. & | CURRENT AFFAIRS TALKS THE LONG TERM POLITICAL PROBLEM IN PAKISTAN Distribution "A" 7th June, 1971 by Mark Tully (S) Indian Ministers are continuing their overseas campaign to explain the gravity of the refugee and cholera problems in West Bengal. Here is a comment from Mark Tully of the BBC Eastern Service: On Sunday (6th June) the Indian Prime Minister. Mrs. Indira Gandhi said that the international community has a duty to impress upon the rulers of Pakistan that democratic urges cannot be suppressed through armed might. Now Pakistan's internal problem has become a matter of quite legitimate concern for India. Over four million refugees and large numbers still corning in are an internal problem of considerable magnitude for India. The Indian government takes the view that these refugees must be returned to East Pakistan as soon as possible because it has neither the space nor the resources to house