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UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 62 Date 30/05/2006 Time 9:39:29 AM S-0863-0004-21-00001 Expanded Number S-0863-0004-21 -00001 ntie items-in-Peace-keeping operations - India/Pakistan - press clippings Dafe Created 17/08/1966 Record Type Archival Item Container S-0863-0004: Peace-Keeping Operations Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: India/Pakistan Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit THE NEW YORK TIMES, Thursday, August 12, 1971 U.N. Seeks Funds to Ship Aid to Pakistan,; cash to meet logistical and ad- able to assure the international By SAM POPE BREWER ministrative costs and to de- community, and donors in par- Special to The N«" York Tiraw fray the expenses of urgent re- ticular, that all supplies reach UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., lief projects to be undertaken their destination, the people of Aug_ 11 _ Secretary General by the various agencies con- East Pakistan." Thant appealed today for more cerned." ...•-.;'. nionev'to help send relief to I The agencies include the Food and Agriculture Organi- East Pakistan. zation> Health Orga- ,' A statement issued by his nization and the United Na- i j off ice said also that the first tions Children's Fund. | [United Nations aid personnel The first group includes a had reached East Pakistan, small headquarters'" staff, an advisory team to cover ques- with the main object of seeing tions of agriculture, ports jspid "that all supplies, reach their water transport, health 'fand destination, the people of East general relief, and an "opera- Pakistan." tions unit" with four area co- The statement said a pre- ordinators. liminary group of 38 was due Today's statement said the there by the end of this month. United Nations efforts in Paki- The full complement to be stan had a double character: sent to East Pakistan will be "First, to help in the organiza- approximately 100. This is not tion and planning of relief ac- connected with relief among tivities, and second, to enable Pakistani refugees on the the Secretary General to be Indian side of the border. The statement today indi- cated that the United Nations cash receipts were less than a tenth of the amount esti- mated as necessary for the first phase of relief work. The United States handed in a check for $l-million on Mon- day and Britain followed yes- terday with one for $1,209,500 —the current dollar value of £500,000. Other promises have been received, but an official remarked: "Even the United Nations can't write checks until the money is in the bank." $28.2-Million Needed The statement issued by Mr. Thant's spokesman today re- marked that on July 15 the "initial requirement" in cash was set at $28.2-million, most of it to move donated supplies. "At the present stage in the operation," the statement said, "the critical requirement is for THE NEW YORK TIMES, Saturday, August Ik, 1971 Pact Said to Bury India's Nonalignment By SYDNEY H, SCHANBERG much of the African-Asian third supporting Pakistan outright. Special to The New York Times world — will have to be rede- The United States, while giving NEW DELHI, Aug. 13 — For- fined. For in the Nehru view, sizable help for the refugees, eign Minister Andrei A. Gro- nonalignment meant no mili- l r has continued arms shipments ° iTafi7tary allianceali'ani »noor>nns and non mutuawiiiriial I myko was back in Moscow to- defense pacts — and this treaty] to Pakistan. day after having resurrected is viewed by most observers as This American arms aid to Indian morale and burying, in I a defense pact. India's enemy has aroused deep! the view of most observers, In- However, Indian officials, bitterness and a sense of be- trayal here and has brought In- dia's cherished policy of non- with the same vehemence they use in insisting that nonalign- dian-American relations to an alignment. ment is alive, contend that the all-time low. This situation, for- The Indian public, which had j Indian-Soviet pact is not a de- eign diplomats believe, has been angry and despondent fense treaty, though in the made .possible Moscow's diplo- over Chinese and American as- same breath they say that the matic coup. sistance to Pakistan at a timeiRUSSians have promised to pro- The anti-American mood when Pakistan is talking of war vide essential military supplies here was reflected in an edi- with India, has been taken out — arms, spare parts, oil — torial in The National Herald, of its doldrums by the 20-year should Pakistan attack. the paper that most closely re- friendship treaty with the So- One member of Parliament flects Mrs. Gandhi's views, viet Union signed here Monday. hailed the new "realism" in Lauding the Indian-Soviet : The' treaty — which gives India's policy, and praised Mrs. treaty, the editorial said: India what she so badly wanted, Gandhi for having "put some "The policy-makers and, po- a major-power ally in the con- meat in our vegetarian non- tential aggressors of the United frontation with Pakistan — says alignment." Another member States should know that they that the two countries will hold said: "At a time when interna- no longer have the initiative "mutual consultations" and tional relations are being forged for creating trouble in this re- "take appropriate effective for naked self-interest, it is ab- gion. They have been warned measures" in the event of an surd to talk of ideals." and neutralized. Aggression attack or threat against either The impetus for putting some and threat of aggression have country by a third country. "meat" in Indian policy comes received a setback and the So- Yet even amid the initial In- from the crisis in East Pakistan, viet Union has rendered a dian elation, questions are be- which began March 25 when great service to peace in the ing raised in % the press and the Pakistani army launched a region." i among informed Indians about military offensive to try to Observers believe the Indian the wisdom of the treaty. crush the Bengali separatist glow over the treaty may not Some observers are asking movement there. wear off in a hurry. Nonethe- whether, by signing this treaty, More than seven million Ben- less, some critics are already India has lost much of her ma- gali refugees have fled into asking whether the treaty was neuverability in foreign policy India to escape the inilitary re- really necessary, whether it I and taken a step toward becom- pression, and the influx con- was not a hastily conceived! ing an unofficial Soviet ajly. tinues, placing a severe burden pact that the Indian Govern-j Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on India's economy;' India is ment grasped-, out < of emotion! and other officials insist that providing military assistance tfr and expediency"~and will regret the treaty is not a departure the Bengali independence fight- later. from nonalignment, but merely ers and clashes have occurred These critics argue that the' an independent move in the na- between Indian and Pakistani Russians need India as much tional interest and that it, in troops on the East Pakistani as India needs them, that Mos- fact, strengthens .nonalignment. border. cow was already New Delhi's If so, critics :say, then non- Pakistan has been threaten- closest ally and largest sup-1 alignment — a policy conceived ing to declare war if India con- plier of arms, and that should by Mrs.; Gandhi's; late father, tinues." Tier aid tp.: the- (Bengali an Indian-Pakistani war erupt, Jawaharlal Nehru,; in; the • n-irfe- insurgents., , •:- . v Soviet arms would continue to ; teen-fifties: ;-. -'' GQmrt^ist^jGhirat^has . •b.eeft.flow; to. India;;:'wi^Wp.ut;.!a treaty. THE NEW YC' "" Indian-American relations are Yet, for all its international munique issued- after-ihe-four- in tatters, and United'States dip- implications, the treaty, aside davs of talks between Soviet- lomats ruefully concede that the from easing Indian anxieties, India; Foreign Minister Andrei Gromy- ,,,-.;. • • p ,_ , ..-: - •"-. rupture is so deep and basic does nothing about the immedi- ,| ko and his Indian counterpart, that things can never be the ate problem it was supposed to J Swaran Singh, fell considerably same again. "I don't think it alleviate — the upheaval in East f short of India's militant stand means that Americans are going Pakistan. I Score One in favor of independence for Ban- to be spit on in the street," said The danger of war may, in fact, gla Desh, or Bengal Nation, the one United States diplomat, "but have increased. Some observers name the Bengali insurgents have we've suffered a very serious given to East Pakistan. suggest that, with Moscow's new Diplomatic setback." support, the Indians may be em- The restrained wording of the The Soviet lobby in the Indian communique was apparently the boldened to step up their assist- Coup for Foreign Ministry is elated, and ance to the Bengali guerrillas. Russians' way of keeping their even moderate Indian officials, Perhaps even more inflamma- options open for dealing with while sincerely making a dis- tory is the military trial of Sheik The Pakistan and keeping a foothold tinction between the Nixon Ad- Mujibur Rahman, the Bengali there against China, Pakistan s ministration and the sympathe- leader of East Pakistan, who is closest ally. tic American public, press and charged with "waging war" Russians The immediate objects of the Congress, are saying that the against Pakistan and with other India-Soviet treaty, it would United States has only itself to offenses carrying the death pen- NEW DELHI — Last Tuesday, seem, are to discourage Pakis- blame for the Soviet treaty.