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530 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড In the next move, Pakistan said she would close the Calcutta mission, since it was unable to function properly, and demanded that India should do the same with the equivalent mission in Dacca, Hast Pakistan. Both missions were officially closed this morning. This has enabled the Pakistani government to demand the repatriation of all the rebellious East Pakistanis now in the Calcutta Mission. India claims that these are political refugees and are thus not eligible for repatriation. Clearly, what the Indians now fear is that the personnel of their Dacca Mission will be held as hostages by the Pakistanis until they agree to send back all the Bengali diplomats from Calcutta. There was an ominous phrase in a note from Pakistan's High Commissioner in Delhi, which talked of safe conduct for diplomats and the security of premises and documents and so on, 'strictly on the principle of reciprocity". India had already complained earlier today over the 'uncivilized treatment' of Mrs. Sen Gupta, wife of the Deputy High Commissioner in Dacca, when she attempted to leave from Karachi airport last Wednesday. A diplomatic courier had also received what India called objectionable treatment. With their ban, the Indians are now threatening to hold Pakistani diplomats as hostages in their turn. They give as the reason for their ban the restrictions already imposed on Indian diplomats, who, they say, arc being prevented from leaving Pakistan. The Indians claim that, far from making a drastic, new diplomatic departure, they are merely following the Pakistanis own principle of reciprocity. 8|| CURRENT AFFAIRS TALKS BUDAPEST PEACE ASSEMBLY AND BANGLADESH 13th May, 1971 by David Graham Seven hundred delegates, from one hundred and twenty four countries, today began a conference in Budapest, organized by the "World peace Council". The news from East Pakistan has given the conference an unexpected challenge. The Secretary General of the world peace Council, Romesh Chandra, one of the main organizers of this "Peace Assembly" in Budapest, is also a leading member of the Communist party of India. The Communist Party of India has sent messages to all the other Communist parties in the world urging them to support the Communist party of East Pakistan and the cause of the independence of East Pakistan, or "Bangladesh." The Communist party of India has also entrusted Romesh Chandra with the task of organizing support, in Moscow, in Budapest, and wherever else possible, for the cause of "Bangladesh." That is the challenge, which many of the seven hundred delegates (now assembled in Budapest) must find disconcertingly new and not at all what they expected when they received their invitations. The "world peace Council" is normally one of the most reliable propaganda instruments for Soviet foreign policy. The agenda for this Budapest meeting, as announced by Secretary General Romesh Chandra in Helsinki (Finland) at the end of