to return this right to its people. At the same time, the elected leaders of the people must take seriously their responsibility to the whole nation, especially to those citizens in both East West seeking to provide for all their most basic right to a decent human standard of living.
Accordingly, the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs;
Calls upon Christian churches everywhere to give their moral support to the right of the Pakistan refugees to return to their homeland with guarantee, against recrimination or imprisonment for political dissent.
Appeals to the Churches to respond generously to the appeal already made by the Commission of Inter-church Aid, Refugee and World Service for aid to alleviate the suffering of the refugees in India and those left food or shelter in Pakistan.
Urges its national constituents to influence their own governments to press the Government of Pakistan to negotiate a just political settlement with the leaders of East Pakistan including guarantees against future victimization; and to press their governments to contribute generously to the reconstruction of the devastated areas and the development of new economic opportunities in East Pakistan when that political settlement has been reached.
