| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
|---|---|---|
| যুক্তরাষ্ট্রর সি,বি,এস টেলিভিশনের সাথে পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী শরণ সিং-এর সাক্ষাৎকার | ভারত সরকারের পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় | ২০ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ |
Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran singh’s interview on CBS Television (U.S.A)
December 20 1971
COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM’S NEWS CORRESPONDENT JOHN HART: In this half hour, the Foreign Minister of India is coming in to talk about what is coming next from Pakistan and Bangla desh and India. What is new is that Pakistan has a new president today. He is Zulfakar Ali Bhutto, whom you saw walk out of the U.N. Security Council last week. He was foreign Minister then, and now that Pakistan lost the war, President Yahya Khan has quite and let Bhutto take over. Bhutto’s party won a lot of seat in the election that Yahya cancelled last December, most of the seats in the Western section of Pakistan, which is all that’s left of it now. Bhutto said last week he won’t have another election now since he won last time. Actually Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s party won a majority in the election last year, but his party was in East Pakistan and that’s Bangladesh now. Sheikh Mujib is a prisoner of Bhutto’s, or else he’s dead. Bhutto the one who has to negotiate with India now, and he says he wants back the territories that India captured.
We have India’s Foreign Minister with us this morning, Sardar Swaran Singh. And, gentlemen, the first question I suppose is: when do you start negotiating?
A.- We will start negotiations as noon as Pakistan’s leaders are ready to do so.
Q.- Do you have any indication of when that will be?
A.- It’s very difficult for me to say. I hope that they will start quickly.
Q. What will be negotiations be about, Mr. Singh? Will you be aiming for a stable peace?
A.-That should be the objective, to have a durable peace, and, in that context, the reality that Bangladesh has come to stay will have to be taken into consideration. That is the basic issue involved.
Q.- So, that really is the condition for successful negotiations for a peace with Pakistan?
A.-You will call it a condition, but this has to be taken into consideration and any durable peace without taking into consideration the aspirations of 75 million people is not realistic.
Q.-What about the person of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman? He has not yet appeared. One doesn’t know whether he’s alive or dead. Will that figure in the negotiations and in the reality of peace thereafter?
A.- It is our hope that he’s alive, and, obviously, being the elected leader of the people of Bangla desh, he will have a decisive voice in giving a future shape to that Bangla desh which has come to stay-a Free people's Republic of Bangla Desh.
