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dated February 05,1955: India warns Portugal

The Government of India, in a note handed to the Portuguese Minister in Delhi on January 31, have warned that "further repression of Goan people would only result in exasperating the feelings of the Goan and the Indian people and that the Portuguese Government must bear full responsibility for the consequences resulting from such a situation." The note is in reply to a Portuguese letter threatening to use the rigours of their new legislation to suppress satyagrahis participating in the freedom struggle in Goa. The Government of India, in their note, have once again appealed to Portugal to appreciate the historical developments that have taken place in the Indian sub-continent and the urge of the Indian people irrespective of whether they lived under the British, French or the Portuguese to throw off colonial rule. The Government of India had hoped that after the recent Indo-French agreement resulting in a peaceful withdrawal of France from their possessions in India, the Portuguese Government would also have seen it fit to recognise the legitimate aspirations of the Goan people; but instead, the Portuguese authorities in their possessions are adopting increasingly repressive measures against the population.

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