| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
|---|---|---|
| বাংলাদেশের অনুকূলে জনমত সৃষ্টির উদ্দেশ্যে বিদেশ সফরশেষে সংবাদপত্রে পদত্ত জয়প্রকাশ নারায়ণের অভিজ্ঞতা ও বলিষ্ঠ বিবৃতি | বিবৃতি | ২১ জুন, ১৯৭১ |
PRESS STATEMENT
A. Left Delhi 16th May and returned 27th June - In all 47 days.
B. Places visited: Cairo, Rome, Belgrade, Moscow, Helsinki, Stockholm, Boon, Paris, London, Washington. New York, ottawa, Vancouver, Tokyo, Bangkok (for rest-no interviews), Djakarta, Singapor, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok (to catch Air India flight to Dehli).
1. I had under taken this mission as a servant of peace on behalf of the Sarva Seva, Sang and the Gandhi Peace Foundation, I am very thankfull indeed, for all the help, financial and otherswise, that I received from them.
2. Equally, I must express my warm appreciation of all the help and hospitality that we received from our country’s representatives in all the capitals we visited. we are most thankfull to them in practicular and to the Government of India in general for all that they did to make my mission as useful as possible.
3. It ws not to beg for aid for refugee relief or only talk about human suffering and to arouse the moral conscience of the world that I under took the arduous trip. Succour for millions of refugees who have fled to India, as well as succour for many millions more subjected to terror in Bangladesh and faced with famine and epidemic there, is of course urgent and I naturally spoke about it. As for the moral conscience of the world or what is left of it, the press everywhere except for Cairo, have done, and I think are still doing, a wonderful job.
4. My greater concern was with the political issue involved and need for their urgent resolution, because as I tried to point out, to those whom I met, the refugee problem and the humanitarian problem were only by products of the underlying political probem.
5. Thanks to the world press as well as to other sources of information including their own diplomatic channels, I found that governments were fairly well posted in regard to the political aspects of the question. I think it was generally felt that the Government of Pakistan by using its brutal might to suppress the democratic verdict of the people of Bangladesh had put into jeopardy the very survival of Pakistan as a united nation. Yet, I found the spokesmen of some governments clutching at the straw of hope that some links between the two wings might still be preserved. Therefore, they all seemed to be pressing Pakistan to stop military operations and seek a political accommodation-this was the popular term in Washington-with the leaders of Bangladesh. When questioned if they
