1971-11-30
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CALCUTTA, India, Nov. 29— An Indian spokesman said to day that there had been “no, reaction so far” to President Nixon's message. But he added that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's statement in a speech in Rajasthan state yesterday “should be a good indication to all of us.”
In that speech Mrs. Gandhi asserted that other nations had said and done nothing while the Pakistani military action was sending millions of East Pakistani refugees fleeing to India and while Pakistan was moving its troops up to India's borders in October.
“Everything was all right so long as we remained silent and pocketed abuses,” she said. “The moment we started taking countermeasures on our borders, there was a sort of riot in the world.”
Her remarks were directed in particular at the resolution by Belgium calling for a meeting of the Security Council on the “threat to international peace” on the subcontinent.
India opposes the move on the ground that the dispute is not between Pakistan and India, but between the Pakistan Government and the people of East Pakistan. The Indians say that the Soviet Union, their closest ally, will block any at tempt at United Nations intervention.
At a briefing tonight, the spokesman said there was “some hesitation amongst the friends of Pakistan to carry the matter forward before the Security Council.” He declined to identify these “friends,” China has been Pakistan's closest sup porter in the dispute, but the Indians consider the United States and Britain to be partial to Pakistan as well.