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How China blocked Bangladesh’s entry in early 1970s stymieing efforts by Soviets & India
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Media reports from 1972 show that Security Council members striving to avert a Chinese veto, deferred Bangladesh's application for the UN membership. Bangladesh submitted its membership application on August 8, 1972 and the Security Council voted ...
By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, ET Bureau
Aug 11, 2020, 01:53 PM IST
NEW DELHI: China is trying to show solidarity with Bangladesh but almost five decades back when East Pakistan became a new nation Beijing egged by its ally Pakistan played hardball in granting UN membership to Bangladesh.
On 17 September 1974, Bangladesh became a full member of the United Nations as China used veto between 1972-74 to prevent membership. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, whose birth centenary falls this year, gave a speech in Bengali language at the General Assembly on September 24, 1974.
“Speaking for China, Huang Hua, her chief representative at the United Nations, said that “Soviet socialist imperialism” was playing a “most insidious role in South Asia” and that India, in concluding “an aggressive military alliance” with the Soviet Union, had “stripped off its own cloak of nonalliance,” according to a New York Times report dated August 25, 1972.
In reply Viktor L. Issraelyan, the Soviet representative, said that “the representative of China sees the hand of Moscow everywhere—this despite the fact that the resolution received 11 favorable votes,” according to NYT report. “I might add that the representative of China was not original,” Mr. Issraelyan said. “In fact, he is repeating the approach by the late John Foster Dulles, who also saw Soviet influence everywhere.”
“In voting against the admission of Bangladesh, which was East Pakistan before winning independence last December with the support of India, China charged that Bangladesh stood in violation of two United Nations resolutions—one passed in the General Assembly and the other in the Security Council,” according to NYT report.
In 1972 then acting Prime Minister of Bangladesh Syed Nazrul Islam appealed to the People's Republic of China not to stand in the way of the rightful admission of Bangladesh into the UN, according to media reports.
Islam had said that 85 countries of the world had already recognised Bangladesh. China had herself suffered in the past due to the obstructionist policy of various imperialist powers, he added. The acting prime minister earnestly hoped that Chinese leaders would appreciate Bangladesh's struggle for freedom and accept the reality.
Today Bangladesh sends one of the largest contingent force to the United Nations and in December 2017 it had 7246 personal deployed in peacekeeping operations. Bangladesh peacekeepers have been deployed in a number of countries such as east Timor, Lebanon, South Sudan, Namibia, Haiti, Liberia, etc.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.econ...by-soviets-india/amp_articleshow/77480733.cms
Getty Images
Synopsis
Media reports from 1972 show that Security Council members striving to avert a Chinese veto, deferred Bangladesh's application for the UN membership. Bangladesh submitted its membership application on August 8, 1972 and the Security Council voted ...
By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, ET Bureau
Aug 11, 2020, 01:53 PM IST
NEW DELHI: China is trying to show solidarity with Bangladesh but almost five decades back when East Pakistan became a new nation Beijing egged by its ally Pakistan played hardball in granting UN membership to Bangladesh.
On 17 September 1974, Bangladesh became a full member of the United Nations as China used veto between 1972-74 to prevent membership. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, whose birth centenary falls this year, gave a speech in Bengali language at the General Assembly on September 24, 1974.
“Speaking for China, Huang Hua, her chief representative at the United Nations, said that “Soviet socialist imperialism” was playing a “most insidious role in South Asia” and that India, in concluding “an aggressive military alliance” with the Soviet Union, had “stripped off its own cloak of nonalliance,” according to a New York Times report dated August 25, 1972.
In reply Viktor L. Issraelyan, the Soviet representative, said that “the representative of China sees the hand of Moscow everywhere—this despite the fact that the resolution received 11 favorable votes,” according to NYT report. “I might add that the representative of China was not original,” Mr. Issraelyan said. “In fact, he is repeating the approach by the late John Foster Dulles, who also saw Soviet influence everywhere.”
“In voting against the admission of Bangladesh, which was East Pakistan before winning independence last December with the support of India, China charged that Bangladesh stood in violation of two United Nations resolutions—one passed in the General Assembly and the other in the Security Council,” according to NYT report.
In 1972 then acting Prime Minister of Bangladesh Syed Nazrul Islam appealed to the People's Republic of China not to stand in the way of the rightful admission of Bangladesh into the UN, according to media reports.
Islam had said that 85 countries of the world had already recognised Bangladesh. China had herself suffered in the past due to the obstructionist policy of various imperialist powers, he added. The acting prime minister earnestly hoped that Chinese leaders would appreciate Bangladesh's struggle for freedom and accept the reality.
Today Bangladesh sends one of the largest contingent force to the United Nations and in December 2017 it had 7246 personal deployed in peacekeeping operations. Bangladesh peacekeepers have been deployed in a number of countries such as east Timor, Lebanon, South Sudan, Namibia, Haiti, Liberia, etc.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.econ...by-soviets-india/amp_articleshow/77480733.cms
