question-but first of all for overcoming its own internal crisis. Pakistan cannot remain indifferent to the destiny of the millions of people who have fled to India. There will be no tranquility in the sub-continent as long as they do not find a possibility to settle the matter in dispute, on the basis of respect for the rights of the peoples, with the legally elected leaders of East Pakistan-first of all Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. If the Government of Pakistan takes the bold step-reconsidering its policy followed since March-if it opens the road towards settlement, if it releases the representatives of the people of Pakistan and start negotiations with them, the whole world would look at them with respect and honor. The question of East Pakistan has to be solved, the refugees have to receive the guarantees to dare to return home-that is the only possibility to avoid war.
We are conscious that being a small country and a small nation, our wards cannot solve such a grave conflict between nations. But in the present critical situation it is not only the right but also the duty of each man to take up a position. The word, the standpoint of the Hungarian Peace Council, represents the opinion of ten million Hungarians.
This opinion is absolutely unequivocal: it desires a political settlement of the issue, for without it the relaxation, the dissolving of the tension in the sub-continent cannot be imagined. We are in the eleventh hour, but the outbreak of war can still be prevented through soberness, through high statesmanship.
