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AMBASSADOR OF INDIA
WASHINGTON, D.C.
#494
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showed perfidious intentions. In the face of this,
could we simply sit back trusting that the rulers of
Pakistan or those who were advising them, had peaceful,
constructive and reasonable intent?
We are asked what we want. We seek nothing
for ourselves. We do not want any territory of what was
East Pakistan and now constitutes Bangla Desh. We do
not want any territory of West Pakistan. We do want
lasting peace with Pakistan. But will Pakistan give up
its ceaseless and yet pointless agitation of the past
24 years over Kashmir? Are they willing to give up
their hate campaign posture of perpetual hostility towards
India? How many times in the last 24 years have my
father and I offered a pact of non-aggression to
Pakistan? It is a-matter of recorded history that each
time such offer was made, Pakistan rejected it out of
hand.
We are deeply hurt by the innuendos and
insinuations that it was we who have precipitated the
crisis and have in any way thwarted the emergence of
solutions. I do not really know who is responsible for
this calumny. During my visit to the United States,
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria and Belgium
the point I emphasized, publicly as well as privately,
was the immediate need for a political settlement. We
waited nine months for it. When Dr. Kissinger came in
August 1971, I had emphasized to him the importance
of seeking an early political settlement. But we have
not received, even to this day, the barest framework
of a settlement which would take into account the facts
as they are and not as we imagine them to be.
Be that as it may, it is my earnest and
sincere hope that with all 'the knowledge and deep
understanding of human affairs you, as President of
the United States and reflecting the will, the
aspirations and idealism of the great American people,
will at least let me know where precisely we have gone
wrong before your representatives or spokesmen deal
with us with such harshness of language.
With regards and best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Indira Gandhi. "
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of
my highest esteem.
L.K.Nr
L.K. Jha
Ambassador of India
His Excellency Mr. Richard M. Nixon,
President of the United States of America,
The White House,
Washington, DC..
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