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357 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম ਸ੍ਰਥ তারিখ প্রস্তাব নয়, আইনের মাধ্যমে অস্ত্র প্রেরণ বন্ধ সিনেটের কার্যবিবরণী ২৪ জুন, ১৯৭১ করতে হবে : সিনেটর সিমিংটন June 24, 1971 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE S 9889 U. S. MILITARY GOODS SENT TO PAKISTAN DESPITE BAN Mr. Symington, Mr. President, the article entitled, "U. S. Military Goods Sent to Pakistan Despite Ban," written by Tad Szulc, presents at the least an incomprehensible picture of insensitivity and bureaucratic inefficiency. It is also once again a story of the executive branch telling the Congress and the people that it is doing one thing, then we find that something quite different occurred. Mr. Szulc reports in the New York Times that State Department officials confirm that at least one ship is on its way to Pakistan carrying military equipment while another is preparing to sail with a cargo of aircraft, parachutes, and spare parts for planes and military vehicles. These shipments are being made despite the State Department statement, reproduced in the committee report on Senate Resolution 21, that no U. S. arms Have been provided to the Pakistan Government or its agents since the outbreak of fighting in East Pakistan, March 25–26, and that nothing is now scheduled for such delivery. In addition, the fact that these shipments have gone forward indicates that the State Department either did not know what was going on, or else misled Congress when Assistant Secretary Abshire, writing to the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, said with regard to military shipments to Pakistan that— Nothing is in the pipeline According to Mr. Szulc, even State Department officials now acknowledge that these shipments constitute a violation of the proclaimed policy, but they offer no explanation for the contradiction between the policy and the facts. As Charmin of the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Sub-committee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, I requested yesterday by telephone a full explanation from the Secretaries of State and Defense; and will report to the Senate when these explanations are received. Pending their receipts, let us reserve final judgment; but it would appear that we should begin to give thought to steps which might be taken by Congress by means of law, rather than by the passage of resolutions, so as to insure that the executive branch's stated policy is carried out.