পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৯১

brと(? বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড SHRI SAMARGUHA. It is not proper to point it out at this stage. SHRI SWARAN SINGH: Therefore, the question of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s safety and the steps being taken to ensure that the military regime treats him well and releases him as soon as possible and starts further processes which should lead to the emergence of a democratic set up-these are the very points that we have been urging, and in the light of what I have said, I would request the hon. Mover not to press this resolution for a vote, because we should not divide on an issue like this. DR. RANEN SEN: Absolutely hopeless statement. SHRI SWARAN SINGH: I know I cannot please him. SHRI S. BANERJEE: He cannot please anyone in India. SHRI SAMAR GUHA: Our Minister of External Affairs has said that Government have not taken a negative attitude in regard to the immediate recognition of Bangladesh, but unfortunately, they have not still indicated the positive attitude towards the question. Perhaps. Government did not expect that so soon and so crudely their pet hope of a political solution on which a lot of speculation was going on would be exploded by Yahya Khan. I do not know whether our Government still would like to continue to hibernate in a cozy bed of super-inaction. I do not know whether they will take any positive action. But I am really surprised to find that our Government have become a more knowledgeable expert on not only the question of Bangladesh but on the interests of Bangladesh when they claim that it will be unhelpful or harmful or it would not be pooper to give the Bangladesh Government recognition at the moment. When all the people of Bangladesh, their leader, their provisional government, and their Mukti Fauj and all their political leaders, not once or twice but repeatedly have been pleading not only with India but with the whole world that their government should be immediately recognized, I do not know how Government say that it will not be to their benefit or it will be unhelpful to them or that it will be harmful to them. I do not know whether our Government knows more about their interests than they themselves know. I do not know whether I should use any adjective for our Minister of External Affairs. If he does not mind it, I may say he is really a misleading Foreign Minister, because he has misled us to believe on several occasions that if India gives recognition to Bangladesh, no other country is going to follow us. But Shri laya Prakash Narayan who was not bridled by any diplomatic inhibitions and who has had a free and frank talk with almost all the important leaders of 20 countries of the world during his 48-day tour of the world has made it clear in a public statement that if India took courage to give recognition, it will be followed by several other countries; at least four or five countries will immediately give recognition, if India gives recognition. Only a few days before we have seen Z16 British Members of Parliament issuing a statement in which they have said that their Government should also give recognition to the Bangladesh Government. I do not know what more the Government expects about mobilization of world opinion. Perhaps at no time, on no particular issue, has the whole world opinion, the press and public opinion been so unanimous as in the expressions of their condemnation of