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963 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ভারতীয় প্রতিনিধি মিঃ সমর সেনের বিবৃতি জাতিসংঘ ডকুমেন্টস ৬ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ I. STATEMENT BY MR. SAMAR SEN, REPRESENTATIVE OF INDIA December 6, 1971 I simply wanted to speak for two minutes in order not to leave an impression on some of the factual matters brought out by the Representative of Pakistan. This impression has been created on the basis of misconception, and I thought I would clear it up straight away. I do not believe it would help our deliberations or profit the Council if I were to reply in detail once again to the many charges he brings up from time to time, charges to which I have replied in detail on previous occasions. All these charges are flung, as I said before, without the slightest iota of evidence or a particle of truth. However, he has mentioned three points in which the United Nations is somehow or other involved and I think it is my duty to inform the Council of the exact position. First, he talked about this tragic subject of Bangladesh being brought up in the United Nations. Of course, the Security Council is one of the many forums where this could be discussed. He did not explain why other organs could not also be considered. However, two factual points. He said that our memorandum, contained in document S/10410, is not correct and that it contains a misstatement. He says Pakistani sources have reported that India has launched an attack on West Pakistan. I maintain, this is totally false. If there any doubt about that, at least part of the truth is established by the report which is contained in document S/10412, which says in its paragraph 4(a): "Srinagar airfield bombed at 1745 hours on 3rd December". Now, Srinagar is on our side of the frontier and, therefore, it could only be bombed by Pakistani planes. We have suggested the bombing took place at 1730 hours; the United Nations observer reports it was bombed at 1745 hours. The second point is that he said that we had committed some heinous crime in preventing the evacuation of consular corps and United Nations personnel from Dacca. If anyone has any regard for the truth-and I think the Secretariat can bear me out on this, but I shall not ask them to do so because it would be most embarrassing for them everything was arranged. The plane came from Bangkok and was flying to Dacca. Here is a telegram stating exactly what happened: "As arranged, Canadian C-13 aircraft came from Bangkok to Dacca this morning. However, when approaching Dacca airport, Dacca control tower did not accept the aircraft and advised it to turn back. Our Calcutta airport control monitored this talk and invited pilot to divert to Calcutta. Pilot acknowledged offer gratefully, but said he was venturing back to Bangkok. The air force authorities confirmed that safe period between 10-30 to 12 noon 1 ST promised by us was fully honored. Our air force stopped air activity in Dacca airfield well before such period". That is the truth,