1971-10-21
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NEW DELHI, Oct. 20—President Tito of Yugoslavia ended his four‐day state visit to India today after endorsing almost fully India's position on the East Pakistani crisis.
A joint communiqué from Marshal Tito and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, issued soon after the Yugoslav leader's departure for Cairo, declared their support for “national liberation movements and the struggle against colonial domination.”
An Indian official spokesman said that this phrase had been used at India's behest, in view of the Bengali struggle in East Pakistan against “colonial domination” by West Pakistan.
The communiqué said that the Yugoslav side “shared India's deep concern over the serious social and political tensions engendered in India, and the strains placed on India's economy, by many millions of refugees” who have fled East Pakistan since Pakistan moved to crush the Bengali autonomy movement.