UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec. 16—Following is the text of a statement by the Government of China in a translation issued by its delegation here today. The statement was also distributed from Peking by Hsinhua, the Chinese press agency.
A large‐scale war of aggression against Pakistan was brazenly launched by the Indian Government on Nov. 21, 1971, with the active encouragement and energetic support of the Government of the Soviet Union. This has gravely disrupted peace on the South Asian subcontinent, given a tremendous shock and caused serious anxiety to the people throughout the world.
On Dec. 7, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by the overwhelming majority of 104 to 11 with 10 abstentions a most urgent resolution, which being very magnanimous to India, calls upon India and Pakistan to bring about a cease‐fire and withdraw their armed forces to their side of the India‐Pakistan borders. This resolution reflects the common desire of the people of the whole world and all the countries which love peace and uphold justice to oppose aggression and interference, be concerned for the security of nations and safeguard the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries of the world.
Indian Action Recalled
After its adoption, the resolution of the U. N. General Assembly was immediately accepted by the Pakistan Government but categorically rejected by the Indian Government. Who wants peace and who wants war? Who is acting in self‐defense and who is committing aggression? Is all this not crystal clear?
Ignoring the opposition of the overwhelming majority of the countries of the world, the Indian Government is continuing to expand its war of aggression, moving massive troops to press on the capital of East Pakistan, Dacca, blockading the ports and sea lanes in East and West Pakistan with its naval forces, and carrying out continuous wanton bombing with its air force against East and West Pakistan, stopping at nothing in committing most brutal atrocities. These acts have completely laid bare the wild ambitions of the Indian expansionists. Cherishing the pipe dream of a greater Indian empire, they want not only to swallow up East Pakistan but also to destroy Pakistan as a whole.
New Perils Are Seen
If a timely stop is not put to such aggression committed by the Indian Government, Pakistan will not be the only country to fall victim, inevitably other countries neighboring on India will also be endangered. Such a state of affairs is absolutely impermissible, whether from the point of view of the United Nations Charter, of the five principles of peaceful coexistence initiated by China and India, or of the 10 principles of the Asian-African Bandung Conference.
The Indian Government asserts that it has launched the war in order to realize the national aspirations of the people in East Pakistan and bring about the return of East Pakistan refugees to their homeland. This assertion is indeed absurd to the extreme. Many countries in the world have nationality problems, which need to be solved properly and reasonably in conformity with the desire and interests of the people, but these are the internal affairs of the respective countries, which can be solved only by their own governments and people, and in which no foreign country has the right to interfere.
Pakistan's Stand Is Cited
The Pakistan Government has repeatedly expressed its willingness to seek a political solution to the East Pakistan question in a spirit of understanding and cooperation. What right has India to take over the affairs of others into its own hands, flagrantly interfere in Pakistan's internal affairs, and even employ powerful armed forces to invade and occupy East Pakistani? It is known to all that India, too, has its own nationality problems, whose complexity and acuteness are rarely seen elsewhere in the world. It may be asked how India would react if other countries should deal with India in the same way that India is today dealing with Pakistan and use armed force against India.
The Indian Government has shown such “thoughtful concern” for the so‐called realization of the aspirations of the people in East Pakistan as expressed in the 1970 elections. But people's memories are not so short at to forget that India and Pakistan agreed long ago to hold a plebiscite in Kashmir to decide its ownership but that both the governments of Nehru the father and of his daughter have gone back on their word and refused to do so. Why is it then that the Indian Government is so indifferent to the national aspirations of the Kashmiri people?
Consultation Is Urged
As for the question of the return of the East Pakistan refugees to their homeland, it should, and can only, be settled by India and Pakistan through consultation, and it is absolutely unjustifiable to resort to force. Has there not been much interflow of refugees between India and Pakistan over the past two decades and more since the India‐Pakistan partition? Because of this conflicts have often occurred on the India-Pakistan borders.
All these sufferings of the Indian and Pakistan peoples stem from the roots of trouble left over by the British Empire in carrying out India‐Pakistan partition after World War II. Colonialism has brought calamities on us Afro‐Asian peoples. Is this lesson not bitter enough to arouse us to concentrating our national hatred on imperialism instead of slaughtering our own brothers and sisters?
However, India has now used armed force in a big way and spread the flames of its war of aggression throughout East Pakistan. As a result, it is not only turning all the 75 million people in East Pakistan into refugees but has brought war disasters upon both the Indian and Pakistan peoples.
The Indian Government has single‐handedly manufactured a so‐called “Bangladesh” and inserted it into East Pakistan by armed force. The Indian Minister for External Affairs Swaran Singh has said that the Indian armed forces will remain in Pakistan territory for as long as this regime requires them. This proves that this regime is a puppet regime, which can hardly exist without the protection of Indian bayonets. In this sense, it is totally the same stuff as the so‐called “Manchukuo” of the thirties and forties, which was under the aegis of Japanese militarism.
The Soviet Government has played a shameful role in this war of aggression launched by India against Pakistan. The whole world has seen clearly that it is the backstage manager of the Indian expansionists. For many years, the Soviet Government has been energetically fostering the Indian reactionaries and abetting India in its outward expansion. In last August the Soviet Union and India signed the treaty which is labelled as one of “peace, friendship and cooperation” but is in substance a treaty of military alliance.
‘Aggression Intensified’
They claimed that this treaty was not directed against any country, but actually it is precisely under their joint conspiracy that the subversion, interference and aggression against Pakistan have been intensified. Since the outbreak of the war of aggression, the Soviet Union has stepped up its efforts in pouring a steady stream of arms and equipment into India to bolster and pep up the Indian aggressors. What makes people particularly indignant is that the representative of the Soviet Government in the U. N. Security Council should have time and again used the veto to obstruct the cease‐fire and troop withdrawal which are desired by the overwhelming majority of countries and the people all over the world.
The Soviet Government has wantonly vilified China, alleging that it is China that has stirred up the conflict between India and Pakistan and “set Asians to fight Asians.”
Actually, it is the Soviet Government itself that has really and truly “set Asians to fight Asians.” The purpose of the Soviet Union in so doing is known to all, that is, to further strengthen its control over India and thereby proceed to contend with the other superpower for hegemony in the whole of the South Asian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean and at the same time to foster India and turn it into a sub-superpower on the South Asian subcontinent as its assistant and partner in committing aggression against Asia.
Czech Invasion Cited
The present sudden invasion of Pakistan by India with the support of the Soviet Union is precisely a repetition on the South Asian subcontinent of the 1968 Soviet invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia. The acts of the Soviet Government have once again revealed its hideous features as social-imperialism and its expansionist ambition. We must forever maintain high vigilance against imperialism and expansionism, and we would here advise our friendly countries on the South Asian subcontinent as well as all the countries in the world which are subjected to in jury and threat by superpowers or subsuperpowers that they should by no means relax their vigilance but should continuously strengthen their defense capabilities and be ready at all times to hit back at the enemy who may seek every opportunity to attack them.
The Chinese Government and the people consistently oppose imperialism, expansionism, colonialism and neocolonialism and firmly support the people of all countries in their just struggle in defense of their state sovereignty and territorial integrity and against foreign aggression, subversion, interference, control and bullying.
‘An Admirable Spirit’
The war between India and Pakistan is a struggle between aggression and antiaggression, between division and antidivision, and between subversion and antisubversion. Under the leadership of President Yahya Khan, the people and armed forces of Pakistan have displayed an admirable spirit of heroism in this struggle.
The Chinese Government and people firmly support the Pakistan Government and people in their struggle against aggression, division and subversion; we not only are doing this politically, but will continue to give them material assistance.
The Chinese Government firmly maintains that the Dec. 7, 1971 resolution of the U.N. General Assembly must be carried out immediately. We hold that there can be no neutrality on the question of aggression versus antiaggression of division versus antidivision, and of subversion versus antisubversion.
‘No Good End’ for Aggressor
Certain big powers, making no distinction between right and wrong and remaining inactive and silent, have all along condoned and allowed the aggressor to grow through appeasement. The result can only be to tread again on the wrong path of Munich and the former League of Nations.
History has repeatedly proved that no aggressor comes to a good end. Relying on the support of Soviet revisionist social‐imperialism, the Indian expansionists have now invaded and occupied large tracts of Pakistan territory and are acting truculently in a wild attempt to lord it over the subcontinent, fancying that they will get their way.
However, contrary to the subjective wishes of the Indian Government, its crimes of aggression will certainly arouse even stronger dissatisfaction and resistance on the part of the Pakistan people and the other peoples of the South Asian subcontinent, the Indian people included, and henceforth there will be no tranquility for it on the South Asian subcontinent.
He who plays with fire will be consumed by fire. The Indian expansionists and their back‐stage manager will surely eat the bitter fruit of their own making.
Victory surely belongs to the great Pakistan people fighting against aggression! Victory surely belongs to the great peoples of India and the other South Asian countries, who love independence, peace and freedom! Victory surely belongs to all the peoples of the world that love peace and uphold justice!