661 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড The President of the Conference declared that the required majority had been obtained and that the item requested by the Indian Delegation would be accepted for inclusion in the Agenda. The procedure for dealing with it would be as he had announced on Friday morning..... Mr. Rimawi (Jordan).... supported the Indian Delegation on the Pakistan refugee problem because of its experience over the Palestine refugee problem.......... Excerpts from Summary Record No. 6. SIXTH PLENARY SESSION Saturday, September 4, evening The sitting was opened at 9.5 p.m., with Mr. Makadi (UAR) (a Vice-President of the Conference) in the Chair.... Mr. Dhillon (India) said that India was opposed to anyone making the Indian Ocean an area of tension, She wished it to be a nuclear-free zone and an area of peace and co-operation. Unfortunately, in East Bengal there was a holocaust of genocide and, in addition, there were repeated threats by the President of Pakistan of total war against India Mr. Navaratnam (Ceylon) remarked that if the Inter-Parliamentary Union had examined the situation in Vietnam and the Middle East before it got out of control the world would have been spared much fighting and misery and destruction of life and property. The Union should examine events in Pakistan. If it did not seek a solution to the problem it would fall in its duty to the world community. The situation in East Pakistan had not gone beyond the stage when a solution was possible. If the Union did not intervene, the situation would deteriorate and what was now described as a civil war might result in an armed conflict and a situation much worse than that in Vietnam or the Middle East. The Union should intervene at once for the release of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who might have been the chief executive of all Pakistan if power had been transferred from the military regime to the elected representatives of the people after the 1970 general elections.... Mr. De Niet (Netherlands) stated that the Netherlands delegation was firmly opposed to the procedure which had been adopted in respect of the draft resolution proposed by Mr. Dhillon about East Pakistan. It had been decided to put the resolution to the Conference a second time-and this here regarded as a very dangerous precedent; although on both occasions his delegation had voted in favor of the resolution being added to the Agenda. Secondly, that draft resolution should be adopted but restricted to the title accepted for the item-international co-operation in favor of the population and refugees of East Pakistan.... Mr. Rashti (Iran) explained that the Iranian Parliament had passed laws implementing recommendations of the United Nations and the IPU in respect of peaceful uses of the sea had and hijacking. Heavy penalties had been provided for hijacking.
