পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৫৬

828 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড good offices I had proposed a simultaneous withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani forces and suggested that this may be supervised by UN observers. India unfortunately did not accept the proposal. In order to obviate a threat to peace and to arrest the deteriorating situation, I now request Your Excellency to consider stationing a force of U.N. observers on our side of the East Pakistan border, immediately, to observe and report upon violations of our territory. GENERAL AGHA MUHAMIMAD YAHYA KHAN President of Pakistan. Ends" 13. With regard to the President of Pakistan's letter of 29th November, the Secretary-General addressed on the same day the following message to the President of the Security Council. " As I have been keeping the President of the Security Council continuously informed of my exchanges of communications with the Governments of India and Pakistan concerning the situation in the sub-continent I am sending Your Excellency a copy of a message which I have today received from President Yahya Khan of Pakistan. You will observe that this message contains a request to me to consider stationing a force of United Nations observers on the Pakistan side of the East Pakistan border immediately. "In my memorandum of 20th July, 1971, to the President of the Security Council I wrote that the political aspects of this matter are of such far reaching importance that the Secretary-General is not in a position to suggest precise courses of action before the Members of the Security Council have taken note of the problem'. In the context of the present military conflict, the stationing of observers by the United Nations on the territory of a sovereign State, even at the request, of that state, is obviously an action for which the authority of the Security Council should be obtained. I believe therefore that the Members of the Security Council should be informed, in whatever manner Your Excellency as President might deem desirable of the request of President Yahya Khan for the stationing of United Nations observers. "I also feel that, in the light of its primary responsibility under the Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security the Security Council should give serious consideration to the situation prevailing in the sub-continent. In this connexion, I would wish to add that I have been obliged to conclude that in this matter, I have gone, for the moment, as far as the Secretary-General may usefully and meaningfully go in the present circumstances". 14. At the same time, the Secretary-General sent the following letter to the Permanent Representative of Pakistan: "I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 29th November, 1971, in which you convey to me a message from His Excellency General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan. I should be grateful if you would inform His