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404 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাক-ভারত সংঘাতে আমেরিকা যেন অবশ্যই সিনেটের কার্যবিবরণী ২৯ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ না জড়ায়ঃ সিনেটর এ্যালেন S] 9668 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE November 29, 1971 The Tragic Conflict Between India and Pakistan Mr. Allen. Mr. President, the human tragedy that is taking place in Asia, where India and Pakistan have renewed their border fighting and threaten all out war, must not engulf the United States. This is not the first time that these giant countries have squared off against one another, but unless the leaders of those two countries come to their senses, the skirmishes now taking place may well be the forerunner of a bloodbath egged on by increasing enmities between Communist China and communist Russia. Red China is backing Pakistan in this fight, while Russia and India just last Aprin signed a treaty of cooperation. Americans cannot be accused of being callous to the human suffering that is taking place in this subcontinent occupied by Pakistan and India. During the past 25 years the United States has given India more than $8 billion in aid, more than any other country in the world has received except for South Korea and South Vietnam where we still have military forces. During this same period, we have provided aid to Pakistan totaling almost $4.5 billion. These figures do not include the $ 444 million earmarked for India and $ 220 million for Pakistan under the 1972 foreign economic assistance package which was passed in the Senate last month. Nor do they include the millions of dollars in private donations by Americans for relief in last year's tragic typhoon and to the almost 10 million refugees in India from Pakistan. Despite these humanitarian efforts by the United States to help the 550 million people of India and 110 million people of Pakistan, we now find that those countries have alined themselves with Communist Russia and Red China. That is the kind of appreciation we have received from our assistance programs. The tragic insistence of India and Pakistan to go to war simply adds further proof of the bankruptcy of the United Nations which was supposedly formed to maintain international peace and security. The Security Council has complete authority to use its influence and the power of the United Nations whenever there is a threat to peace. But the record clearly and unmistakably portrays the failure of the U.N. as a world peace keeping organization. Since 1947, just 1 year after the U.N. was created, there have been 73 wars or civil conflicts throughout the world. But on only 10 occasions has the Security Council provided peace keeping forces or observer teams, and the United States provided the bulk of the support in most of those. Even those few actions are marred by failures, such as the abrupt withdrawal of U.N. forces along the Suez Canal in 1967 resulting in the so-called 6-day war between Israel and the Arab States, a war that