Move By Kennedy To Stop Arms Shipments
WASHINGTON, June 30.–Senator Edward Kennedy complained on Monday, to the State Department against the new shipment of arms to Pakistan, says PTI.
He denounced the Administration moves as “misleading and contradictory” and in violation of an “understanding conveyed to me and others in Congress” and promised to introduce legislation to halt all arms shipments to Pakistan.
AP adds: The Senator asked why the Administration was not meeting the “humanitarian needs” of East Bengal. “Only a handful of the international community is speaking out on the question: but it is difficult when the USA is so quiet,” he added.
Mr. Kennedy said. “We need someone knocking at the President’s door and knocking on the Secretary of State’s door, saying “This is inhuman-this is an international problem.’
“In a matter of a few weeks.” he said, “well over six million persons have found it necessary to flee to India to escape conditions in their homeland. Countless thousands of others have been slaughtered or wounded in the civil strife.”
He called upon the U.N. to establish an emergency service to offer “humanitarian assistance to civilian mo !ation in armed conflicts and other disasters.”
Reference: Hindustan Standard 01.07.1971