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176 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৮২। জাতিসংঘ সাধারন পরিষদে | জাতিসংঘ দলিলপত্র উদ্ধৃতিঃ বাংলাদেশ ১২ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ আগা শাহীর বিবৃতি ডকুমেন্টস STATEMENT BY MR. AGHA SHAHI (PAKISTAN) IN THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OCTOBER 12, 1971 The Representative of India, while making his statement in exercise of the right of reply, at the 1953rd meeting on 5th October, put forth two propositions with which my Delegation would entirely agree. The first, referring to Pakistan's internal situation, was that India, to use his own words, "cannot come into it and should not come into it". The second was that the problem of the return of displaced persons to their homes in East Pakistan is of such anguish that it is not a matter for polemics of debate. If the Representative of India had sustained these propositions, we would have seen the beginning of a process whereby the tension in the India-Pakistan subcontinent could be dispelled. This would make a just and durable solution of our own internal problems vastly easier. Is it not, therefore, extremely unfortunate that, far from sustaining these propositions, the Representative of India proceeded to destroy them at every turn. On the one hand, he said that India does not and should not interfere in Pakistan's internal problems. But straightaway, he asked that the Government of Pakistan should enter into negotiations with the same group that wanted to break the national unity of Pakistan. Is this not clear interference by one States in the affairs of another? Governments of States which wish to maintain normal relations do not even comment on one another's internal problems. But here, one State demands that a certain internal situation of another State be resolved in a certain way. Then again, on the one hand, Ambassador Sen said that the problem of the return of displaced persons is of extreme anguish. On the other, he did not hold out the slightest promise of India's co-operation towards accomplishing the objective of the return of this mass of unfortunate people to their homes, in full security of life, property and honor. Let us be clear on this point. Everyone agrees that the only humanitarian solution of the problem caused by this tragic exodus of people is that they should be enabled to return-to their homes. Since they are at present on Indian soil, I ask: how can this be done without India's willing cooperation? Yet, there was nothing in the statement of the Indian Representative which could be construed as an offer co-operate towards this humane and urgently necessary end. To make the return of the refugees conditional on a political change in Pakistan, is not only to interfere in Pakistan's affairs but also to play with the present plight of this large number of human beings. The Representative of India charged us with callousness.