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696 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশের শরণার্থী প্রশ্নে হাঙ্গেরীয় শান্তি বাংলাদেশ ডকুমেন্টস ১১ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ পরিষদ প্রধানের বিবৃতি STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN PEACE COUNCIL-NOVEMBER 11, 1971 The following is a statement issued by Lenin Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Endre Sik, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary and President of the Hungarian Peace Council, on the problems and consequences of the exodus of East Bengal refugees to India: We are deeply concerned by the fact that the situation on the Indo-Pakistani border is growing worse and worse. In the present circumstances, there is no single spot in the world, however for it may be, where if a warlike conflicts breaks out, we could afford to be indifferent. The peoples of the Indo-Pakistani sub-continent are especially near to us. The traditional cultural relations, marked by names such as Sandor Korosi Csoma, Anrel Stein and Ervin Baktai, have still further been strengthened in recent years by a multitude of political and trade relations, not only with India but also with Pakistan. India and also Pakistan are good friends of the Hungarian people and in the trenches on both sides of the border there now lie people whose lives are dear to us. We are also aware of the fact that in to days world there are no guarantees that wars will remain local. Dangerous, narrow-minded interests can easily escalate into continental, and even more dangerous dimensions, conflicts which appear to be of a Jocal nature. We can follow closely the development of the tension. We are aware of what happened in Pakistan last year and specially in the spring of this year when the legally elected representatives of the people of East Pakistan were arrested, carried off and murdered. We are informed of the horrible massacre unleashed in Dacca at the end of March after which hundreds of thousands of people fled to India. We are deeply moved by this human suffering-the spread of epidemics in the refugee's camps and the hunger and the misery of the millions of people leaving behind their country and their homes. The great concern of our people manifested itself in the fact that, through the representative of the Hungarian Peace Council, we sent 85,000 doses of cholera-vaccines to the refugee camps. Already a Hungarian peace delegation is in India and it has brought with it blood plasma, medicines and blankets for the refugees. The entire population of our country is not more than the number of refugees staying in India. We are aware of what an immense burden this means for India and that is why, according to our modest abilities, we make every effort to help, The peoples of both India and Pakistan are our friends. Their efforts for national independence, economic self-reliance and for full self-determination are evoking sympathy in us and we are standing side by side with them. But we cannot hide our conviction that the source of the present tension is in Pakistan. Pakistan has to find a solution: not for their relations with India-this in our judgment is only a secondly