পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৯৪

666 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ কুয়ালালামপুরে অনুষ্ঠিত কমনওয়েলথ ংলাদেশ ডকুমেন্টস ১৩ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ পার্লামেন্টারী সম্মেলনে নিউজিল্যান্ড প্রতিনিধি এইচ. সি. টেম্পলটন এবং গায়ানা প্রতিনিধি মিঃ বিসেম্বর-এর বক্তব্য STATEMENT BY MR. H.C. TEMPLETON (NEW ZEALAND), AT THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE, KUALA LUMPUR September 13,1971 We ourselves, as a country, have emphasized that we believe that the Commonwealth and the United Nations must assist the Indian and Pakistani people in solving this problem. We have raised this directly with the Pakistan Government. The Prime Minister of New Zealand has written to the President to emphasize the rights of the people of East Pakistan. We believe that he and his government must come to terms with the elected representatives of East Pakistan, and that they must call off the mockery of a trial of the elected leader of East Pakistan: they must recognize his rights. We must all call for this shift in policy. STATEMENT BY MR. BISSEMBER (GUYANA), AT THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE, KUALA LUMPUR September 13,1971 I do not believe, I do not disbelieve rather, the international norm that we must not interfere in the internal affairs of another independent territory, but what I do submit, Mr. Chairman, and distinguished Delegates, is that where there is human suffering, where there is human degradation, and where there is a renunciation of all the rules of public morality, and of all the rules of international justice, it is the right and duty of every Commonwealth Parliamentarian to air their views at a conference of this nature. I submit that the happenings in India and Pakistan are of tremendous importance not only to us in the Commonwealth but to all those who believe in international justice and the rule of law in the world - - - - - - - - I thought that Mr. Zafar (Pakistan's Minister of Law some years earlier), and those who live in that great country of Pakistan, believe in parliamentary democracy, that is why they were trying to host the conference there. Mr. Chairman, with the greatest respect for those who live there, how could we think of having a conference in Pakistan when they themselves called elections—and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won those elections, they won the elections but they were not allowed to form a government in Pakistan. Mr. Chairman, I mentioned that because a certain colleague of mine said that the elections were not conducted properly, but Mr. Chairman, the fact of the matter is just āᏚ