পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/১৫৬

ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ১২০ জন শ্রমিক দলীয় এম,পি, কর্তৃক দি স্টেটসম্যান ১৭ জুন, ১৯৭১ ংলাদেশকে স্বীকৃতি জানানোর দাবী 120 Labor M.P.S Demand Bangladesh Recognition From S. NIHAL SINGH LONDON, June 16.-one hundred and twenty Labor M.P.s last night demanded the recognition of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh in a resolution tabled in the House of Commons. Among those who have tabled the motion is Mr. Ian Mikardo, Chairman of the Labor Party, and its principal sponsor is Mr. John Stonehouse who visited West Bengal last April. The motion follows the Commons debate last week, but goes further in demanding recognition for Bangladesh. It says that by the widespread murder of civilians and the atrocities on a massive scale, the Pakistani Army has forfeited all rights to rule in East Bengal. Therefore, the motion calls for a meeting of the U.N. Security Council to consider the situation both a threat to international peace and a contravention of the Genocide Convention. Further it says that until order is restored under U.N. supervision, the Provisional Government of Bangladesh should be recognized as the vehicle for the expression of self-determination by the people of East Bengal. Two factors appear to be responsible for the forthright nature of the resolution. There is perhaps a feeling of guilt in Labor circles over the empty Opposition benches during the debate on Pakistan demanded by Mr. Harold Wilson. Secondly, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Government's approach to the problem, while full of sympathy for the relief of the refugees, is tilting towards rescuing Pakistan's economy, once the Yahya regime has done the necessary window dressing in East Bengal. The Labor Party's decision to take a bolder approach to the Bangladesh problem is also apparent from two resolutions passed by its national executive. The main resolution asks the British Government to raise the question in the Security Council, substantially to increase Britain's contribution to U Thant's relief fund and give generous assistance to India for the care of the refugees. It says that with the collapse of political institutions in Hast Bengal, aid cannot be meaningful. Therefore the Government should restrict aid to Pakistan to help relieve suffering and urge this view upon members of the Aid Pakistan Consortium. The second resolution calls for the immediate setting up of a disaster relief commission. While the people of Bangladesh have won a more forthright ally in the British Labor Party, it seems doubtful that the British Government will be swaved by it—and everybody in Britain has really more interested in the Common Market. PTI adds: European nations, including Sweden, Holland, Italy, Austria and Hungary, have agreed that Pakistan cannot impose a "unilateral" solution on East Bengal