TORONTO CONFERENCE
EXPRESSES CONCERN
ON BANGLADESH
An international conference of distinguished scholars. editors and parliamentarians held in Toronto called upon all governments supplying arms and economic aid to Pakistan to stop immediately till a lasting political solution in Bangladesh was found.
The conference warned that the present situation in Bangladesh posed a great threat to peace in the Indian sub-continent. The Conference resolution called “Toronto Declaration of Concern” said that participants were “horrified by events of recent months in East Pakistan which have resulted in one of the major disasters in man's history.”
It said “the present situation is a threat to peace both in the sub-continent of South Asia and throughout the world with danger of great power involvement in the familiar pattern of escalation.”
Among the signatories to the Conference held from August 19-21 were former Director General of U. N. Technical Assistance, Hugh Keenleyside; former British Labor Minister. Judith Ilart; British M. P. Bernard Braine; and former Canadian Ambassador to China, Chester Running.
