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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড
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Secretary-General as would make him far exceeds his competence. She demanded, politely but unmistakably, that the Secretary-General “view the problem in perspective", and that he interfere in Pakistan's affairs by making “efforts to bring about a political settlement in East Pakistan". Needless to say, the message was that the Secretary-General is welcome if he execute India's political designs; otherwise, IlOt.

 For some weeks, the refrain in Indian pronouncements was that Pakistan was planning a large-scale conflict with India. But in October, the President of Pakistan suggested a mutual pull-back of the forces of both countries from their borders. If the Indian leaders believed in their own propaganda, they would have welcomed the offer. But the Prime Minister of India summarily rejected it on the grounds that Pakistan's lines of communication to the borders were shorter than those of India.

 Wishing to avoid controversy, the President of Pakistan modified his earlier suggestion and said that if withdrawal to peace-time stations was not possible then at least the troops, along with armour and artillery, could be pulled back to a mutually agreed safe distance on either side of the border to provide a sense of security to both sides.

 Could anything be more fair? Could any guarantee better prove Pakistan's desire to avoid war with India? In brief, the present situation confronting the Security Council" is one in which one Member State resorted to every means, including the classical form of aggression, namely, an armed attack, to break up another Member State. Since India's aggression could have succeeded unless it was opposed, Pakistan could not abdicate its right to take appropriate counter-measures. It is now for the Security Council to find the means to make India desist from its war of aggression. Only those means devised by the Security Council which are consistent with our independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and with the principle of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of Member States, will command my Government's support and co-operation.

 Before I end, I feel compelled to make a few observations on the debate which arose in this Council from the proposal of the Representative of the Soviet Union to invite the representatives of a so-called entity. The Representative of India was out of order when he intervened on this question because only Members of this Security Council can participate in a procedural debate. Rule 39 of the rules of procedure was quoted in favor of extending the invitation. But let me remind the Security Council that the rules of procedure must be subordinate and subservient to the Articles of the Charter of the United Nations, and one of the fundamental principles of the Charter is that of the territorial integrity of Member States. Any move under rule 39 of the Council's rules of procedure which runs counter to this fundamental principle of the Charter is outside the competence of the United Nations and of Security Council, because the Security Council must interpret its rules in consistence with the fundamental provisions of the Charter.

 The proposal to invite the so-called delegation in question is only seemingly innocent. We have been told that the Council would benefit from the information that may be given in regard to the deteriorating situation leading to the armed clashes between India and Pakistan.