878 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড "What India must realize is the fact that the break-up of Pakistan is in our own interest, an opportunity the like of which will never come. If Pakistan breaks up, and we ensure friendly relations with Bangladesh, it will solve the problem of security for India." Another Indian political thinker saw in Pakistan's disintegration the road to Great Power status for India in this region. The Foreign Minister of India spoke in a plaintive tone of the setback that his country's economy has received on account of the influx of refugees. As for Pakistan, let me assure him and the other representatives here that Pakistan is ready, willing, to take everyone of its citizens back. If India wishes to be relieved of the burden and the problem of maintaining them as it ought to-let it give unstinted co-operation to that end. My Government has said that it is ready to sit down and discuss with India the best manner for bringing the refugees back. My Government has asked the Security Council to assist in the task with a specially designated good offices committee. If the Government of India is unwilling for whatever reason, to sit across the table from Pakistan, let it accept the good offices of the Security Council. As I have said before the Government of Pakistan is doing everything possible to bring about the repatriation of the refugees to their homes in East Pakistan. It is also fully conscious of the need to restore normalcy in the country in order to ensure the well being of the refugees as well the rest of the people of Pakistan. The President of Pakistan, in his address to the nation on 28th June, has himself expressed the view that normalcy would not return without the full participation of the people. He has made substantial progress towards ushering in a government representative of the people. As a first step, a civil administration has been installed in East Pakistan which is headed by a prominent East Pakistani and includes permanent members of the former Awami League. By-elections to those seats, whose incumbents were disqualified for involvement in the insurgency and other crimes have been scheduled for the month of November. A provisional constitution is being framed which will attempt to satisfy two basic imperatives: Regional autonomy and preservation of the territorial integrity of Pakistan. The National Assembly will have the power to amend the provisional constitution by a relatively simple procedure. The Foreign Ministry of India described all this as "eye-wash." If conditions in Pakistan were truly as those described by him, press censorship would not have been removed: foreign observers, United Nations personnel, the International Committee of the Red Cross, would not have been allowed into East Pakistan. If violence is continuing it is the result of India's action in encouraging, awaiting and assisting in sabotage with East Pakistan. The boarders continue to remain tense and Indian shelling and mortaring are daily occurrences. The Preservation of orderly conduct of relations among States is based on the strict observance of the principle of respect for territorial integrity of States and reinterference
