পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৩৭

809 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র পূর্ব বাংলার পরিস্থিতি সম্পর্কে নিরাপত্তা পরিষদের | জাতিসংঘ ডকুমেন্টস ১৯ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ প্রেসিডেন্ট-এর কাছে জাতিসংঘের মহাসচিব উ-থান্ট-এর স্মারকলিপি 7, U THANT'S MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL, 19 July. 1971 For some months now members of the Security Council and many other members of the United Nations have been deeply preoccupied with developments in East Pakistan and adjacent Indian Suites and their consequences or possible consequences. I. myself, expressed my concern over the situation to President Yahya Khan shortly after the events of March. 1971 and have been in continuous touch with the Governments of Pakistan and India, both through their Permanent Representatives at the United Nations and through other contacts. In these exchanges I have been acutely aware of the dual responsibility of the United Nations, including the SecretaryGeneral under the Charter, both to observe the provisions of article 2, paragraph 7 and to work within the framework of international economic and social cooperation to help promote and ensure human well-being and 'humanitarian principles. It was with this latter responsibility in mind that I appealed for assistance both for refugees from East Pakistan now in India and for the population of East Pakistan. In order to channel assistance given in response to those appeals. I designated the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as focal point for assistance to refugees in India and appointed with the agreement of the Government of Pakistan, a Representative in Dacca in order to make as effective use as possible of international assistance made available for relief of the population of East Pakistan Both of these humanitarian efforts have been reported upon in detail elsewhere and the Economic and Social Council held a full discussion on both operations on 16 July. 1971. Based on statements to the Council by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Assistant Secretary-General for Inter-Agency affairs I lake this opportunity to express my warm gratitude to the Governments. United Nations Agencies and programmes and to the voluntary organizations which have responded generously to my appeals. I also wish to express my: appreciation to the Governments of India and Pakistan for their co-ordination with my representatives in the field. As weeks have passed since last March. I have become increasingly uneasy and apprehensive at the steady deterioration of the situation in the region in almost all its aspects. In spite of the generous response of the international community to my appeals for assistance for refugees from East Pakistan now in India, the money and supplies made available are still nowhere near sufficient and the Indian Government still faces the appalling and disruptive problem of caring for an unforeseeable period of time for millions of refugees whose number is still increasing. In East Pakistan international and governmental efforts to cope with results of two successive disasters, one of them natural.