পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৯৮

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770 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ জেনেভায় অনুষ্ঠিত ইউ-এন-এইচ-সি-আর এর জাতিসংঘ ডকুমেন্টস ৪ অক্টোবর, একজিকিউটিভ কমিটির সভায় জাতিসংঘে শরণার্থী >あ°i> বিষয়ক হাইকমিশনার প্রিন্স সদরুদ্দীন আগা খানের বিবৃতি STATEMENT OF PRINCE SADRUDDIN AGA KHAN, UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES, AT THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF UNHCR HELD IN GENEVA" October 4, 1971 Mr. Chairman, half a century after the inception of International refugee work by Fridtjof Nansen, and twenty years after my office embarked upon a challenging task of solving refugee problem, it is painful for me to have to report that the world refugee situation has, if anything, become grimmer and increasingly explosive. Year after year, we have lived with the idealistic hope that the humanitarian work of UNHCR would cure the disease of refugee problems. It is symptomatic that this year when observing our twentieth anniversary, present events reminds us of the harsh and sad realities of a world in turmoil that is far from meeting our hopes. The plight of vast masses of refugees is not past history; it remains very much a current phenomenon. While the basic structure of UNHCR has remained the same, the problem of uprooted people throughout the world has greatly developed in dimensions and in variety. As a result of the ever-changing nature of the situation of displaced persons, my office has been called upon increasingly to perform functions not foreseen when its original mandate was evolved. The use of UNHCR's "Good offices" role is a natural by-product of this evolution. By striving to promote rapid solutions to refugee problems, UNHCR surely contributes to the lessening of tensions between states. The more a situation is complex and loaded with political overtones, the more we are required to be flexible in our work and diplomatic in our approach. While determination of refugee status remains a matter for the host country to decide upon, we must spare no effort to alleviate human suffering. Although it is heartening to recall such highly successful operations as the repatriation of Nigerian children or the usual work carried out in delicate political, social and economic conditions in African countries and many others in various parts of the world, it is nonetheless both alarming and tragic to note that these successes are dwarfed by a challenge of unprecedented magnitude that this year has brought with it for the international community and which preoccupies you all as much, I am sure, as it preoccupies me: I am now thinking of the gigantic and cruel problem of displaced persons from East Pakistan in India and other neighboring states. After the events of last March in East Pakistan, the Government of India, faced with a sudden and most serious influx of East Pakistanis into its territory, requested the Secretary-General on April 23, 1971, to make available necessary assistance from the