PAKlSlANI-CHINESE I By Jean Leclere du Sablon
AFP REPORT RELEASED FROM PEKING BUT NOT TRANSMITTED FROM PARIS
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PAKISTANI-CHINESE I PEKING November 15, 1971
Peking, November 15, 1971, (AFP) : China has clearly and insistently warned Pakistan that it does not want war to break out in the Indian sub-continent, an informed source disclosed here today.
The source said Chinese concern over the risk of Indo-Pak war was conveyed repeatedly to Pakistan President Yahya’s envoy Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the three Pakistani army chiefs, during talks they had here a week ago with premier Chou En- lai and other Chinese leaders.
The Chinese were particularly insistent on the necessity of avoiding a war with India in their talks with the three Pakistani commanders, the source said.
It was during Pakistani’s three day stay in Peking that acting foreign minister Chi Peng Phei denounced what he: called the ‘gross Indian interference’ in Pakistani internal ' affairs but also emphasized that difference between the states must be settled through mutual consultations and not through the use of force.
The source contrasted Chinese prudence on the Indo-Pak conflict as no communique w;as issued for Bhutto’s visit with the publicity given to the Soviet commitment in India.
Last week’s statement on India was the first made by China’s official news agency Hsinhua source; the denunciation of Indian expansionism seven months ago.
Diplomatic sources here listed 4 reasons for China’s discreet change on the Indo-Pakistan problems China wants to demonstrate that its recent entry into the United Nations Organization may help to make the world _ body more efficient.
(i) The Chou Enlai’s diplomacy is to keep South-East I Asia free from power wrangling by two super-powers | specially the Soviet Union.
(ii) Peking would be reluctant to make moves jeopardising I its budding entente with India. Premiers Chou and Indira have just exchanged telegrams on the occasion of China’s entry •into the U.N. Mrs. Gandhi hoped for Chinese co-operation in the World body and Mr. Chou said friendship between the Indian and Chinese people is developing day by day. China welcomed Indian table-tennis team to the recent Afro-Asian Table Tennis Tournament in Peking and invited 2 Indian newsmen to a visit t<5 the country for the first time in 15 years.
(jj) The independent Bangladesh would certainly conform neither with China’s interest nor with its ideologies.
It would surely weaken China’s Pakistani ally and upset the balance on the Indian sub-continent.
Chi Peng Phei’s speech delivered, during Mr. Bhutto’s ' Visit here castigated East Pakistan’s internal secessionists and teaid the East Pakistan problem must be settled by the Pakistani people themselves in a reasonable way.
j This speech has not carried the conviction that China J would support new authoritarian steps by the central Pakistan government to solve the East Bengal problem.
AFP-165
PAKISTANI-CHINESE I PEKING November 15, 1971
Peking, November 15, 1971, (AFP) : China has clearly and insistently warned Pakistan that it does not want war to break out in the Indian sub-continent, an informed source disclosed here today.
The source said Chinese concern over the risk of Indo-Pak war was conveyed repeatedly to Pakistan President Yahya’s envoy Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the three Pakistani army chiefs, during talks they had here a week ago with premier Chou En- lai and other Chinese leaders.
The Chinese were particularly insistent on the necessity of avoiding a war with India in their talks with the three Pakistani commanders, the source said.
It was during Pakistani’s three day stay in Peking that acting foreign minister Chi Peng Phei denounced what he: called the ‘gross Indian interference’ in Pakistani internal ' affairs but also emphasized that difference between the states must be settled through mutual consultations and not through the use of force.
The source contrasted Chinese prudence on the Indo-Pak conflict as no communique w;as issued for Bhutto’s visit with the publicity given to the Soviet commitment in India.
Last week’s statement on India was the first made by China’s official news agency Hsinhua source; the denunciation of Indian expansionism seven months ago.
Diplomatic sources here listed 4 reasons for China’s discreet change on the Indo-Pakistan problems China wants to demonstrate that its recent entry into the United Nations Organization may help to make the world _ body more efficient.
(i) The Chou Enlai’s diplomacy is to keep South-East I Asia free from power wrangling by two super-powers | specially the Soviet Union.
(ii) Peking would be reluctant to make moves jeopardising I its budding entente with India. Premiers Chou and Indira have just exchanged telegrams on the occasion of China’s entry •into the U.N. Mrs. Gandhi hoped for Chinese co-operation in the World body and Mr. Chou said friendship between the Indian and Chinese people is developing day by day. China welcomed Indian table-tennis team to the recent Afro-Asian Table Tennis Tournament in Peking and invited 2 Indian newsmen to a visit t<5 the country for the first time in 15 years.
(jj) The independent Bangladesh would certainly conform neither with China’s interest nor with its ideologies.
It would surely weaken China’s Pakistani ally and upset the balance on the Indian sub-continent.
Chi Peng Phei’s speech delivered, during Mr. Bhutto’s ' Visit here castigated East Pakistan’s internal secessionists and teaid the East Pakistan problem must be settled by the Pakistani people themselves in a reasonable way.
j This speech has not carried the conviction that China J would support new authoritarian steps by the central Pakistan government to solve the East Bengal problem.
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