1971-09-11
By Sam Pope Brewer
Page: 10
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Sept. 10—The senior New York representative of Bangla Desh conceded today that his organization would have no means of being heard officially without the support of some member of the United Nations.
Sayid A. Karim, who was the second‐ranking man in the Pakistani mission until he resigned last month to join Bangla Desh, said he had been told only to day of the decision to send a delegate or group there. He said that he had been advised to seek help from friendly governments, but that he had no promises as yet.
Asked about the constitution of the Bangla Desh government, Mr. Karim conceded that it was still incomplete. But he said the government had a Foreign Secretary, Maboub ul Alam, who sent today's message to him. Mr. Karim said the Bangla Desh government was “floating,” and operated where it could, and that Mr. Alam, as foreign secretary, was making his headquarters in Calcutta.
Mr. Karim was the only Pakistani diplomat to defect from the mission here when the upheavals at home began. A Vice Consul, Mahmoud Ali, had left the consulate here earlier be cause of political disagreements with his Government, and now serves at the Bangla Desh press office here.
Six diplomats defected from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, as did seven other per sons at the Embassy who did not have diplomatic status.