HONG KONG, Nov. 29 — Li Hsien‐nien, a Chinese Deputy Premier; condemned India today for incursions into East Pakistan and reaffirmed support for the Pakistanis in their dispute with India over the East Bengali independence movement.
Mr. Li urged that India give “serious consideration” to the recent proposal by Pakistan's President, Gen. Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan—rejected by India—that the armed forces of India and Pakistan withdraw from the border of East Pakistan.
The Deputy Premier made Peking's first public statement on the situation since sharp fighting between Indian and Pakistani troops began last week. He spoke at a reception held in Peking by the Albanian Ambasador, Xhorxhi Robo, to mark the 27th anniversary of Communist rule in Albania.
Hsinhua, the Chinese press agency, extracted the section of his remarks dealing with India and Pakistan and dispatched it to Hong Kong as a separate item in the English‐language service.
Appeals By Other Leaders
Mr. Li's statement came at a time when President Nixon and other leaders were appealing to India and Pakistan to restrain the advance toward large‐scale warfare along the borders of East Pakistan.
He charged India with “carrying out subversive activities and military provocations against East Pakistan” and said her actions were supported and encouraged by “social‐imperialism,” the phrase the Chinese use to designate the Soviet Government.
Asserting that “the Chinese Government and people are greatly concerned over the present Indo‐Pakistan situation,” Mr. Li said: “We maintain that disputes between states should be settled by the two parties concerned through peaceful consultation and absolutely not by resorting to force.”
In an obvious allusion to the Indian incursions, he added: “It is all the more impermissible for a country, under any pretext, to employ large numbers of armed troops to willfully cross its own border and invade and occupy another country's territory.”
“The Chinese Government and people,” he said, “resolutely support the Pakistan Government and people in their just struggle against foreign aggression and in defense of their state sovereignty and national independence.”
He ended his statement by urging India, without using her name, to accept the Pakistani proposal for mutual troop withdrawals.
Mr. Li's statement on the Pakistani situation came at the end of a long speech of praise for Albania and expressions of thanks for her prominent role in promoting a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly that brought the Chinese Communists into the world body. Albania was lauded for waging “tit‐for‐tat struggles against U. S. imperialism and social‐imperialism.”
Mr. Li described Peking's entry into the United Nations as a sign of the revolutionary trend of history and said that his country would never disap point “the hopes placed in us by Albania, by all friendly countries and by the people of the world.”
China and Albania, he added, will “make joint efforts for safeguarding the national independence and state sovereignty of all countries and supporting and assisting the revolutionary struggles and liberation causes of the peoples of the world.”