UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Dec. 7—The General Assembly approved tonight a resolution urging. India and Pakistan to stop fighting and pull back their troops.

The vote in the Assembly was 104 to 11, with 10 abstentions.

The Assembly had inherited the war issue from the Security Council, which was unable to agree on any resolution.

A stream of speakers during the day‐long debate in the Assembly had spoken in favor of the resolution, which had been introduced by Argentina.

Note of Desperation

Pakistan, the United States, and China voted in favor of the resolution. India, the Soviet Union and other East European countries voted against it. The outsized majority emphasized the isolation of India and the Soviet Union in their opposition to the resolution, as the conviction spread through the Assembly that it must take some sort of action.

An essentially identical resolution was vetoed by the Soviet Union in the Security Council on Sunday, but there is no veto in the General Assembly, which can only urge its member states to act.

A note of desperation was often sounded in the Assembly hall as the hours passed in the fourth day of United Nations debate over the war.

A Nicaraguan speaker, Jose Roman, said, “We are concerned for the destiny of the United Nations; if it cannot resolve this problem in a definitive way, it will be just a bureaucratic lump of sugar.”

Nicaragua was one of the 14 original co‐sponsors of the Argentine resolution. The resolution's main operative provision says: “The General Assembly calls upon the Governments of India and Pakistan to take forthwith all measures for an immediate cease‐fire and withdrawal of their armed forces on the territory of the other to their own side of the Indian-Pakistani borders.”

Later in the day the Soviet Union submitted a resolution that called for a cease‐fire, but did not mention Withdrawal. It also called on Pakistan “to take effective action towards a political settlement in East Pakistan.”

The Soviet resolution reflected the Soviet‐bloc position, frequently affirmed here, that the “root causes” of the crisis must be dealt with and that a political settlement is of prime importance.

The countries that voted no on the Argentine resolution, besides the Soviet Union, were Bhutan, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, India, Mongolia, Poland and the Ukraine. Those that abstained were Afghanistan, Chile, Denmark, France, Malawi, Nepal, Oman, Senegal, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

After the ballot, the Pakistani chief delegate, Agha Shahi, called it “an overwhelming, historic vote,” but he stipulated that “no attempt must be made to disrupt the national unity of Pakistan,” and he commented on the resolution's provision concerning refugees.

It urged “that efforts be intensified in order to bring about, speedily, conditions necessary for the voluntary return of the East Pakistan refugees to their homes.”

Mr. Shahi said that such conditions “must be consistent with the territorial integrity and national unity of Pakistan.” He ruled out also any neaotiations with what he called East Pakistan's “secessionist elements.”

There was no immediate comment from the Indian or Soviet delegations. No vote was taken on a Soviet resolution.

Chinese‐Soviet Dispute

The leader of the Chinese delegates, Chiao Kuan‐hua, continued the bitter Chinese‐Soviet exchanges that have punctuated recent meetings of the Assembly and the Council. Mr. Chiao denounced India, as well as the Soviet Union in the following words:

“The Soviet Government is the boss behind the Indian aggressors. The Indian expansionists usually do not have much guts. Why have they become so flagrant now? The reason is that a superpower, Soviet social ‐ imperialism, is backing them up.”

The chief Soviet delegate, Yakov A. Malik, said China was using the United Nations as a forum for “slander and anti‐Sovietism,” which he decried as a “sordid task.”

The Assembly session was attended by Secretary General Thant, who returned to work yesterday after recuperating from an ulcer. A military report issued in his name said that United Nations observers in Kashmir reported today “that no major change in the pattern of air and ground activity had taken place” in the area in the last 24 hours. The “activity” has included air raids by both sides, shelling and small‐arms fire.

The. Secretary General, in a speech to the Assembly, said, “I now appeal to all the parties to the conflict, no matter what their allegiance, to take every possible measure to spare the lives of the innocent civilian population which is afflicted and threatened by the present hostilities.”

He said he had instructed his representative in Dacca. Paul Marc Henry, to cooperate with the International Committee of the Red Cross in devising means to reduce bloodshed. But he did not elaborate.

The chief Indian delegate, Samar Sen, said that the Argentine resolution had been introduced “with extreme goodwill” but he denounced it as “unrealistic,” “irrelevant” and “dangerous.”

He said it would not get at the problem of what he called the Pakistani Army's maltreatment of East Pakistanis.

Speaking of Pakistan, he said flatly, “We have to face the fact it has broken up.”

The chief Pakistani delegate, Agha Shahi, said of the Argentine resolution, “It is quite clear that an overwhelming majority of the members” would favor it. But he said it suffered “from a serious deficiency” because it did not include “a condemnation of the aggression” that he said India had committed. He said it should also include “mechanism to insure there is no repetition of the attack.”

The Ceylonese chief delegate, Hamilton S. Amerasinghe, spoke ringingly of the risks that the crisis entailed for the United Nations. He spoke as follows:

“This is the United Nations'; darkest hour. We still have a chance of transforming it into its finest hour. Today its very existence is threatened. Its principal organ charged with maintaining international peace has failed to take effective action.”

As the debate continued its fourth day, there were these other developments here:

¶A United States mission spokesman said that the representatives of the United States, China, the Soviet Union, France and Britain had held a meeting that “formally initiated consultation on a successor to U Thant,” who is to retire Dec. 31. The mission spokesman said that it was the first time the American representative, George Bush, had conferred formally with the Chinese representative, Huang Hua.

¶A United Nations spokesman said that because the Indian authorities had closed the port of Calcutta, United Nations relief shipments destined for East Pakistani refugees in the area were being diverted, and would probably be offloaded temporarily in Singapore.

¶The spokesman, William C. Powell, also said at the daily press briefing that antiaircraft fire from unidentified naval vessels in the Bay of Bengal had thwarted an attempt to evacuate more than 300 United Nations and consular employes from Dacca.

He said that the fire had been aimed at an unarmed Canadian C‐130 transport that was to have begun the evacuation, but that the plane had turned back unharmed to Bangkok.

¶Some Western diplomats said that the Security Council might still take “some constructive step” concerning the war, even though the issue had been shifted to the Assembly.

They suggested that the President of the. Council, Ismael B. Taylor‐Kamara of Sierra Leone, might eventually make a formal statement that could have considerable force if it had “the assent of the whole Council“—although it would count for less than a resolution.

Ambassador Bush, in a short speech before the Assembly, urged passage of the resolution introduced by Argentina.

The Assembly took up the question at midday after hearing a speech on the Middle East by the Foreign Minister of Senegal, Amadou Karim Gaye.

India and the Soviet Union, Which seemed to want to delay the Assembly debate, raised procedural objections to letting the Assembly take up the issue directly, but they did not press their point and the debate began.

The Assembly President, Adam Malik of Indonesia, said speeches should be limited to 10 minutes, except for those of India and Pakistan.

This reflected the stress put on quick action by many speakers. The representative of Argentina, Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, expressed a widely held view when he told the nearly full Assembly chamber that what was needed was action, “with the haste that the case requires.”

He introduced the resolution that had been vetoed in the Security Council, when it was introduced by eight delegations. This time he did so in the name also of Belgium, Burundi, Spain, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Tunisia. And endorsements by other nations multiplied as the day went on.