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774 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ জেনেভায় অনুষ্ঠিত ইউ-এন-এইচ-সি-আর এর জাতিসংঘ ডকুমেন্টস | ৫ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ একজিকিউটিভ কমিটির ২২তম অধিবেশনে ভারত সরকারের পুনর্বাসন সচিব শ্ৰী জি. এস. কাহলন-এর বিবৃতি STATEMENT BY SHRI G. S. KAHLON, REHABILITATION SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, IN THE 22nd SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF UNHCR HELD IN GENEVA OCTOBER 5, 1971 Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you and members of your Committee for providing me with this opportunity to address you. May 1, Sir, begin by extending to you my Delegation's and my own warmest congratulations on your election as Chairman of this Committee? You, Sir, and your country have taken such deep interest in refugee problems and have great knowledge of humanitarian issues involved therein. I wish you and your colleagues, the Vice-Chairman and the Rapporteur, every success, and extend to you our fullest co-operation in discharge of your onerous responsibilities. May I also take this opportunity to join all other delegations in congratulating The High Commissioner, Prince Sadruddin Agha Khan, for his most interesting and informative statement. He and members of his staff have difficult and demanding task to perform all over the world, and we in India, in our present position, would like to express our appreciation to them for prompt and efficient assistance they have kindly given So ungrudgingly. Your present meeting has historical significance, since it coincides with 20th anniversary of setting up of Office of UNHCR. However, it is unfortunate that world should today be faced with tremendous tragedy of human situation involving over 9 million of people who have had to flee their hearths and homes and seek refuge in another country, and whose hardship we are all trying to mitigate. As the distinguished High Commissioner himself had pointed out in his statement yesterday. "The common objective-inside and outside the United Nations should be to seek ways and means to eradicate the cause of refugee problems and to solve political, social and economic ills which trigger off all large movements of population". It is only through eradication of these causes that solution of this complex problem can be found; only then can any voluntary repatriation of refugees, like those who have crossed into India in millions, be brought about As you know. Sir, India is so vitally and extensively concerned with current problem of influx of refugees from East Pakistan that I feel it is necessary to apprise this Committee of some essential details of problem that India has had, and is still facing, in this context, and manner in which she is tackling it, with assistance of course from international community.