Foreign Affairs Record-1963

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1963
January
Volume No
IX No 1
1995

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Foreign Affairs Record Jan 01, 1963
Vol. IX JANUARY No. 1

CONTENTS

CAMBODIA Pages

President's Banquet Speech welcoming Cambodian Head of State 1
Prince Sihanouk's Reply 2
Prince Sihanouk's Speech at Indo-Cambodian Friendship Society
Reception 3
Prince Sihanouk's Speech at Dinner in honour of the President 3
Dr. Radhakrishnan's Reply 4
Joint Communique 5

CEYLON

Prime Minister's Speech at Friendship Society Reception 6
Ceylon Prime Minister's Speech 6

COLOMBO CONFERENCE

Prime Minister Nehru's Speech of Welcome 7
Ceylon Prime Minister's Reply 8
Mrs. Bandaranaike's Speech at Civic Reception 9
Text of Ali Sabry's Speech 10
Text of Ghana Minister's Speech 11
Joint Communique 12
Colombo Proposals 13
Clarifications 13

FRANCE
Utilisation of French Credit Letters Exchanged 14

HOME & FOREIGN AFFAIRS

President's Republic Day Message to Indian Nationals Abroad 14

INDIA & THE UNITED NATIONS

Prime Minister's Message to U.N. Secretary-General 15

INDONESIA

Trade Talks : Aide Memoire 16

LEBANON

Indo-Lebanese Friendship Reaffirmed Prime Minister's Banquet
Speech 16
Lebanese Prime Minister's Reply 17

MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS : EXTERNAL PUBLICITY DIVISION
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

(ii)

Civic Reception to Lebanese Prime Minister Text of Speech 19
Lebanese Prime Minister's Banquet Speech 20
Prime Minister's Reply 21

PAKISTAN

Indo-Pakistan Talks : Sardar Swaran Singh's Speech 21
Joint Communique 23

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Colombo Proposals : Prime Minister's-Statement in Lok Sabha 23
Prime Minister's Statement in Rajya Sabha on Colombo Proposals 29
Prime Minister's Reply to Debate in Lok Sabha 37

PORTUGAL

Indian Nationals in Mozambique 46

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

India-U.S. Cooperation under U. N. Sponsorship on Outer Space
Experiments 47
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President's Banquet Speech welcoming Cambodian Head of State

Speaking at a dinner held at Rashtrapati
Bhavan, January 25, 1963, in honour of His
Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
Head of State of the Kingdom of Cambodia,
and Madame Norodom Sihanouk, President
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan said

Your Royal Highness, Madame Sihanouk,
Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to convey
to you our most cordial welcome on behalf of
the Government, people and of myself and I
hope you and the members of your party will
find your stay here both interesting and pleasant.

Your Royal Highness, we have watched your
somewhat unusual and striking career with great
interest. When you were installed as the King
of Cambodia in, 1941, you were just 18 years
old. You then led the movement for freeing
Cambodia from alien rule and found that your
duties as King interfered with your work for
your people. So you abdicated in favour of
your father in 1955. Since when you have been
working for the development of your country
and your people. You have introduced many
administrative reforms, many economic measures
and many schemes of educational expansion.
You have identified yourself with the interests
of your people. You are now the elected Head
of your State, the undisputed leader of your
country, enjoying the confidence and affection of
your people.
When I thought about the educational things
you were discussing with me, I was greatly im-
pressed by the language problem which you have
solved in your country. In the primary stages,
they learn Khmer and French. In the second-
ary stages, they learn Khmer, French and
English. In the university stages, they learn
French, English and Russian. It shows the
modern outlook which you have developed in
your country. Your position occupying a place
between countries which are aligned this way
or that way, has been a somewhat delicate one.
With great acumen and courage you have pur-
sued a police of non-alignment and helped your
neighbouring countries to the extent to which
you can.

You took a leading part in the Geneva Con-
ference on Laos and you helped the attainment
of the neutrality-of Labs. Though you are in
fact a neutral, there has not been any de jure
recognition of it, but that doesn't matter.

And I find again that your country has so
many attractions about it. Visitors from all
parts of the world come there to we those mag-
nificant masterpieces of architecture in Angkor
Vat etc. The descendants of the people who
built those great monuments had no doubt great
and artistic talents and abilities. And you your-
self, Your Royal Highness, take a great deal of
interest in music, in song and drama. You
write poetry-you wrote-not now, there is no
time for writing scenarios for cinema now-light
music compositions like that. And you have
enabled your people to have a taste in the
traditional arts and crafts of your country.
You have tried to give them a lead. You have
led labour teams. You have worked in rural
areas. You yourself undertook manual work
so as to set an example to your people that un-
less we help ourselves, there is no chance of our
developing our own country. That great exam-
ple you have set to your people.

The flag which you have is always a remainder
that man as he is, is incomplete. The three
gopuras, the temple spires there, they indicate
that we are here to dream, to aspire, to com-
plete ourselves. What we have is something
which cannot satisfy us. History is full of ups
and downs, of periods of war and peace and
tremendous threats and great hopes. We know
our teachers have taught us, the more weapons
of violence, the more misery to mankind. In
spite of the exalted teachings they give we still
go on developing new and complicated weapons.
This civilisation has a precarious character. It
has got virtues which have helped us to build
civilisation. It has got vices which have re-
duced civilisations to nothing. Both these
virtues and vices spring from the heart of man
Unless we are able to integrate our own nature
unless we are able to feel dissatisfied with things
as they happened to be, there is not much chance

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of our moving forward, but the spirit of man is
there. It is bound to prevail and this particular
flag of yours, with its three gopuras is an indi-
cation to us all not to be content with what we
are but to move forward and forward until we
reach the, goal. You have therefore done a
great piece Of work for your country and I have
no doubt with your wide travels, with so much
experience which you have gained from your
meeting with other people, you are bound to be
of great assistance to your country.

When I was there some years ago I found this
little girl, who is Her Royal Highness today,
gave a performance, a ballet in which she took
the role of Sita.
I saw that and enjoyed it. The people are a
people who have a capacity for enjoyment, who
have a sense of art, who have a sense of deep
dissatisfaction with things as they are and aspire
for nobler things. So long as that aspiration
is there, there is hope for all of us.

It is my great pleasure, Your Royal Highness,
to ask all of you to drink to your health, to the
health of Madame Sihanouk, the members of
your party and express to you the hope that
you will have a good time in our country.

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Prince Sihanouk's Reply
Replying to the toast proposed by the Presi-
dent, H.R.H. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Head
of State of Cambodia, said :

I thank His Excellency Dr. Radhakrishnan
from the bottom of my heart for the very
generous things he has just said-sentiments
which resume and complete, as it were-the
cordial welcome we received on our arrival in
your beautiful capital today; and I should like on
this the first day of my visit to pay respectful
tribute to the statesman and profound philoso-
pher, who symbolizes in his person both the
eternal India and, also the India of today with
its feet firmly set on the path of progress.

Cambodia, for its part, has never forgotten
what it owes to India, which with a prodigal
generosity endowed it with the religious beliefs
and technical knowledge that enabled our civi-
lisation to flower and to develop, at the same
time. certain entirely original features which
it has retained ever since. And I should like
to point out the important part these ancient
links may play in future exchanges between our
two countries, as both the position in which we
find ourselves placed and the lessons of our his-
tory give us some insight into India's evolution
today.

I have pointed out that Cambodia is deeply
indebted to India; and I will add that 1, for my
part, am much indebted personally to India's
great leader Shri Jawaharlal Nehru. For it was
by Studying his methods and teachings, and by
following his sage counsels that I was able to
decide upon a course of action which has assured
our independence, and national unity, together
with peaceful internal conditions and the respect
of our sovereignty. And I ascribe the unanimous
and enthusiastic support commanded by this
policy to the far-sighted wisdom of our well-
loved and respected Indian friend.

Nevertheless, it must be admitted that no
policy, however clairvoyant it may be, can spare
a country all internal or external difficulties.
What nation can lay claim to an untroubled his-
tory? And even my country which is so well
endowed with friends has been unable to main-
tain friendly relations with its neighbours. But,
when the balance is struck between the advan-
tages and disadvantages entailed by the political
and ideological choice we have made, I believe
for my part that neither India nor Cambodia will
have cause to regret their choice.

Finally, I should like to express my deep
gratitude to His Excellency the President of the
Republic and to the Prime Minister and to the
Indian Government for their invitations which
will give us an opportunity to visit and to admire
some of the very important work you have been
doing in every province of your immense country.
We are likewise most pleased at the prospect of
being able to convey in person the brotherly
greetings of the Khmer people to the courageous
people of India.

And it is with these sentiments that I ask you,
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, to
raise your glass with me, and to drink to the
health of His Excellency the President of the
Republic of India.

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Prince Sihanouk's Speech at Indo-Cambodian Friendship Society Reception

His Royal Highness, Prince Norodom
Sihanouk was the guest of honour at the Indo-
Cambodian Friendship Society's reception at
Asoka Mission Vihara at Mehrauli, near Delhi,
on January 27, 1963. Replying to the address
of welcome he said :

Your Venerable, Your Excellencies, Ladies
and Gentlemen, my very dear brothers : First
of all, may I express my very deep gratitude
to you, the representative of the Kamboja com-
munity for your very kind and affectionate
words, for your very generous speech.

I am profoundly happy to have the oppor-
tunity to come and pay my respect to Lord
Buddha in this Vihara. I should like to thank
respectfully the Venerable for having given me
this opportunity. It is a great joy for me to meet
him here in this place where he built this Vihara
with the generosity of the Indian Government
led. by Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, my great and
respected and beloved friend.

I am today in your great country, India, your
guest. I am visiting India as your guest, in a
fifteen day's State visit. It is for me a great
fortune because India is considered by the whole
Cambodian people, the whole royal family of
Cambodia, as a homeland. Our State was
founded nearly 2,000 years ago by an Indian
prince. Our State was constituted by an Indian
statesman who came to our land, our country
which was then not a State, not a nation. We
were then not conscious of our ability to be a
nation and if Cambodia could exist that was due
to India.

We were colonised by the Viet Namese and
after that by the French, So some new States,
some new people believed that we were not in-
dependent, we were not a State and our history
could be regarded only since the Geneva Con-
ference in 1954. We are very happy of the
fact that we have a seat in the United Nations.
We are a very old State and we have a very old
civilisation and we owe all that to India. It was
India that built Cambodia. So, in coming here,
we are coming to the shores of our existence.
It is an explanation why we are so happy to be
amidst you. And as Buddhists we consider
also India as the place for pilgrimage because
Lord Buddha gave to our countries, like
Cambodia, Dharma and Lord Buddha came from
India. So we feel very happy and honoured to
be considered by you, my Indian brothers, not
as foreigners, but as some of your countrymen.
And you are giving to all my countrymen who
come here such hospitality that they feel quite
at home. This is my first State visit but people
from Cambodia have been coming here and have
contact with you.
We were very delighted to welcome a few
years ago many delegates from your association,
the Kamboja Committee and I am delighted to
see the same delegates here, my very honoured
hosts. May I express at the same time my grati-
tude to the other members, to the other brothers
in the Dharma-for instance, I see close to me
His Excellency the Ambassador of Burma, many
ladies and gentlemen from Burma. We were
very fortunate to have the opportunity to pay
our respect to the sacred relics of Lord Buddha
a few months ago.

In your speech you recalled the efforts we
have inside in Colombo in the framework of the
six nonaligned countries which dedicate them-
selves to their friendship with India and with
China. We of the six non-aligned countries, parti-
cularly Burma and Cambodia, are continuing with
other countries of the Colombo Conference in
this work, dedicated to the search of a satisfac-
tory and honourable solution to the problem
India is facing. We are trying to help you to
solve in honour and in justice this very great
problem.

We express to you our affectionate sympathy
and we can assure you that we will always do
our best in order to help you to realise your
aim of peace, of an equitable settlement of the
problem you are facing now. And it is with
these sentiments that we present to you our best
wishes for your happiness, for the grandeur of
India, for the glory of your great nation, for the
success of your various schemes.

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Prince Sihanouk's Speech at Dinner in honour of the President
H.R.H. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Head of
State of Cambodia, proposing the toast at a
dinner on January 28, 1963 in honour of
President Radhakrishnan, said :

We are very appreciative of the great honour
His Excellency President Radhakrishnan has

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done us by consenting to honour this reception
with his presence, and I thank him most sincerely
for accepting our invitation.

The Cambodian people-and I should like
to lay particular stress on this point-respect
and admire greatly the noble figure of India's
President, whose visit to our country some years
ago is still fresh in their memory; it also seems
to me that the President's prudent wisdom and
statesmanlike qualities, both of which are
legendary, must be of inestimable value during
the difficult period through which India is now
passing.

My gratitude likewise goes out to the Prime
Minister, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, who has
played such an important and effective role in
international politics during the past 15 years,
and whom I and my country have the joy and
privilege of numbering among our most valued,
loyal and respected friends. Finally, I should
like to thank all those personalities, both Indian
and of other nationalities, who have kindly
consented to be present this evening.

In the course of the past few days, we have
learnt much about the progress you are making
in building up your country, while the talks I
have had with India's eminent leaders will have,
I am sure, a most happy effect on the future
relations between our two Governments. These
relations--I hasten to add-have no need to be
consolidated as we have always been so close to
each other; we react in the same way to any
given situation, while we have so many customs
and traditions in common that we always under-
stand each other perfectly But, having made
this claim, I consider none the less that we should
pursue our practice of direct and frequent con-
tacts, which have always proved most helpful
to both of us in the past.