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dated February 5, 1957 : Nehru condemns Pak move

Addressing a public meeting in New Delhi on February 3, Prime Minister Nehru declared that India would not tolerate the stationing of any foreign troops even on the smallest part of her soil. He made this statement after a reference to Pakistan's reported attempt to get the Security Council ask India and Pakistan to withdraw their forces from Kashmir and to introduce a UN force there. Declaring that India had not broken any pledge on Kashmir, he said, "India has neither gone back on any international commitment in the past, nor has she any wish to do so now." He recalled that the question of sending a UN force to Kashmir had not been entertained even by the UN Commission for India and Pakistan. "What the UNCIP had said was that Pakistan should completely withdraw its forces from Kashmir. It accepted India's right to station her forces in Kashmir to defend the State. India had agreed to withdraw the bulk of her forces - only when the last Pakistani soldier had left Kashmir." He said India's right to station troops in Kashmir had been recognised by the UN itself, together with Pakistan's lack of status to remain in the State. Any suggestion to send foreign troops to Kashmir would be a violation of India's basic right.

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