পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৭৪

746 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ইকনমিক এ্যান্ড সোশ্যাল কাউন্সিল-এর ৫১তম জাতিসংঘ ডকুমেন্টস ১৬ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ অধিবেশনে ইন্টার এজেন্সী এ্যাফেয়ার্সের সহকারী মহাসচিব মিঃ ইসমত টি, কিন্তানীর বিবৃতি STATEMENT MADE BY MR. ISMAT T. KITTANI, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR INTER-AGENCY AFFAIRS, AT THE FIFTY-FIRST SESSION OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ONJULY 16,1971 Mr. President, Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to inform the Council of the efforts of the Secretary-General and the United Nations system to provide humanitarian assistance to East Pakistan. It may be useful at the outset for me to outline very briefly the background of this endeavor, in which a number of organizations and programmers are working in a concerted manner. On 22, April the Secretary-General addressed a letter to President Yahya Khan expressing its great concern at the situation in East Pakistan and offering, on behalf of the United Nations family of organizations, and on purely humanitarian, grounds all possible assistance to help the Government of Pakistan in its task of bringing urgently needed relief to the population of East Pakistan. The President of Pakistan responded to the Secretary-General's expression of concern for the wellbeing of Pakistan stating in a letter received on 3rd May that an assessment of possible future needs for international assistance was under way (released on 12th May). Subsequently, on 17" May, the Economic Adviser to the President of Pakistan called on the Secretary-General and, having formally accepted his offer of assistance, explained the extend of the relief requirements. These were set out in more detail in a communication from the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, dated 22"May (released on 26"May). In the same letter the Government of Pakistan informed the Secretary-General that foreign and United Nations experts and project personnel who had left East Pakistan could return to continue their work. It may be relevant to note that in the meantime-that is, on 19th May-the Secretary General had made an appeal for international assistance to alleviate the serious hardships and suffering of the sizeable and continuing influx of refugees from East Pakistan into adjacent States of India. Although that is a separate operation these two efforts of International assistance are, of course, related to the extent that as conditions in East Pakistan are improved, there will be a better possibility of arresting and reversing the flow of refugees. Following consultations with the Permanent Representative of Pakistan in New York, the. Secretary-General decided that I should travel to Pakistan for consultations with