পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৩৬২

334 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ সিনেটর চার্চ-এর বক্তৃতা ও বৈদেশিক সাহায্য সিনেটের কার্যবিবরণী ১০ জুন, ১৯৭১ বিধি সংক্রান্ত বিলে স্যাক্সবী চার্চ সংশোধনী $8836 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 10, 1971. INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1971-AMENDMENT Amendment No. 150 Mr. SAXBE (for himself and Mr. CHURCH) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by them, joints to S. 1657, a bill to consolidate and to revise the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended, and other legislation relating to international security assistance and for other purposes, which was ordered to be printed and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. AID TO PAKISTAN SUSPENDED Mr. CHURCH. Mr. President, my distinguished colleague from Ohio (Mr. SAXBE) and myself submit today an amendment to the International Security bill, S. 1657, which would suspend U.S. military and economic aid to Pakistan until food and medical relief, supervised by an international agency such as the United Nations, is instituted on the regular basis throughout East Bengal and the majority of Pakistani refugees now in India are repatriated. The people of East Pakistan, larger in number than the whole population of West Pakistan, have been hard-hit by two calamities in less than a year-the cyclone-tidal wave disaster and a savage civil war in which an estimated half million have been killed, and millions more driven from their homes. Food, medical supplies, clothing, and other essential are desperately needed. A full-scale international relief operation is mandatory. There are now close to 5 million Bengali refugees in neighboring India, with approximately 40,000 more arriving each day. The economic and social disruption resulting from such a massive influx of people imposes an unbearable burden upon India itself. More dangerous to the outside world, however, is the serious threat the refugees pose to peace between India and Pakistan. The creation of another refugee problem along the Indian border, like that which plagues the Middle East, would be alarming in its implications for the future. Under these circumstances, the United States must apply such leverage as it can to alleviate this human tragedy through the implementation of essential international relief and the speedy repatriation of refugees. Such is the purpose of our amendment.