UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec. 5—The Security. Council, meeting for the second consecutive night on the India‐Pakistan conflict, was unable to agree tonight on any resolution put before it.
The deadlock developed when the Soviet Union vetoed a resolution calling for an immediate cease ‐ fire and withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani armed forces to their own side of the border. Eleven nations voted in favor.
A Soviet draft resolution calling for “a political settlement in East Pakistan that would inevitably result in cessation of hostilities” was also defeated.
Only. Poland voted with the Soviet Union on this resolution. There were 12 abstentions and one member, China, voted against it.
China Withdraws Resolution
The Chinese delegate, Huang Hua, withdrew his own resolution before it was put to a vote. It had called not only for a cease‐fire and withdrawal of armed forces but for the “condemnation” of India as an aggressor.
The resolution vetoed by the Soviet Union today was sponsored by eight non-permanent members—Argentina, Belgium, Burundi, Italy, Japan, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone and Somalia. China, Syria and the United States also voted for it. Poland joined the Soviet Union in voting no.
Britain and France abstained. These powers had held through out the debate that the Council should take unanimous action.
Yakov A. Malik, the Soviet delegate, told, the Council before the voting started that he would vote against all the resolutions but his own. Since the Soviet Union is a permanent member of the Council, his vote constituted a veto.
The Soviet draft resolution differed from all the other texts considered in that it did not call for a cease‐fire but merely asked Pakistan to “take measures to cease all acts of violence by Pakistani forces in East Pakistan.” It did not call for a cease‐fire by India or for an Indian withdrawal.
Mr. Huang, taking the floor to explain his negative vote, charged that the Soviet draft resolution constituted “interference in the internal affairs” of Pakistan.
He said that it was no coincidence that India had resorted to armed aggression against Pakistan soon after Premier Indira Gandhi returned from talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow. The Soviet Union, he said, encouraged and protected India in her “flagrant attack.”
Mr. Malik retorted that the Chinese representative had indulged in “customary slander.” He added that the Chinese were “obsessed by pathological hatred of the Soviet Union.”
Today's veto was the second cast by the Soviet Union. Early this morning, at the first meeting of the Council, Mr. Malik vetoed a resolution by the United States calling for a cease‐fire and withdrawal.
Immediately after the votes, Italy made another attempt to break the deadlock. Ambassador Piero Vinci said that he and four other delegates would introduce a new draft resolution calling on India and Pakistan to accept a cease‐fire “as a first step” while the Council would continue meeting in search of measures to produce peace.
Malik Yields a Point
At 11:30 P.M. the Council president, Ismael B. Taylor Kamara of Sierre Leone, adjourned the meeting until 3:30 P.M. tomorrow after the Soviet Union had served notice that it would veto the new draft resolution if it were put to a vote. At that point Ambassador Vinci and others moved for adjournment to hold further private consultations.
When the Security Council met tonight, it found itself embroiled immediately in procedural and technical wrangles, particularly over whether to invite a representative of Bangla Desh, or Bengal Nation, the name given by the insurgents to East Pakistan, to address it.
A decision was deferred after the Soviet delegate, the chief sponsor of the invitation, declared that he would not press for a vote now.
Mr. Malik made his concession after Carlos Ortiz de Rozas of Argentina pointed out that the Bangle Desh delegation, in a letter to the Council president, had asked to be heard as representatives of “the government” of Bangla Desh. The implication of Mr. Ortiz de Rozas's remark was that the Council could not possibly give Bangla Desk government status. Mr. Malik agreed that the matter needed further consultation.
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, the leader of the Bangla Desh delegation, watched the Council debate from the visitors' gallery.
The meeting was delayed three and a half hours as the delegates, in a mood of growing frustration, sought to bridge the gap between the Soviet position, which was unconditionally pro Indian, and the equally firm pro‐Pakistani stand of China.
George Bush, the American delegate, made it clear during today's consultations that the United States would not vote for any resolution that did not include such clauses.
Speaking informally to reporters between consultations with his colleagues, Mr. Bush likened Pakistan to a “man who has his leg almost cut off.”
“What you do in such a situation is put on a tourniquet,” he said, explaining that this was, why the United States was insisting on a ceasefire and withdrawal.
I Mr. Bush said that India was clearly “the major aggressor.”
The Chinese delegation took almost no part in the informal consultations preceding today's meeting. “Our position is so clear there is no need for consultation,” a Chinese delegate said.
By the time today's Council meeting started at 6 P.M., dele gates from several countries felt that only one draft resolution had a remote chance of being adopted.
This draft, submitted by Belgium, Italy and Japan, called for an immediate cease‐fire but did not mention a withdrawal.
Resolution Is Withdrawn
Belgian diplomats said that members of the Soviet delegation had indicated that, with some changes, the draft might be acceptable to them.
The Belgians conceded that, while the Russians pressed for a softening of the text, both the Chinese and the Americans were seeking to make it stronger. The Italian Ambassador, who played a particularly active role during and before the Council meeting, said that the term “disengagement” rather than “withdrawal” might be inserted into the resolution.
But consultations to this effect, held while the Council session droned into the night, proved unsuccessful and the resolution was withdrawn before it came to a vote.