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comrades and Friends given that I'm all

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that stand between you and the t- room I

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shall be unusually

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brief the

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fact that the labor party has had a very

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long and close history of

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involvement with India with the congress

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party with the neru

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family is

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I think

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significant in that I as the vice

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chairman of the Foreign Affairs

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Committee of the labor party my

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colleague Mike Watson one of the leading

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young members of the labor party in

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Parliament that the labor MP Max

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Madden whose letter was read out to you

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today that the leading labor figer

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Muhammad aib from Bradford is here today

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that I can bring you fraternal greetings

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from Gerald kofman the labor party

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Shadow foreign secretary is I think

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significant the message to India should

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be

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clear your conduct of the occupation of

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Kashmir the

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brutality and the criminality of the

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behavior of your Armed

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Forces is undermining and subverting all

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the things about you that made us your

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the I was uh taken by a quotation on

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page 33 of cashmir needs World attention

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distributed just a few minutes ago a

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quotation from Mr neru on November 2

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1947 when he said and I quote

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we declare that the decision regarding

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Kashmir shall be made by its people

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neither can we revoke The Pledge nor

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shall we revoke it so we say from the

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British labor party to the successors to

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Mr neru both in the Indian congress

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party and in the minority government now

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in delhi that is a pledge made by nuu

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that is a pledge which should be kept

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Kashmir has the right to exercise its

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self-determination and India's brutal

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denial of that right

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that's as we

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speak a whole

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Armada of

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500,000

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soldiers six aircraft

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carers the naval fleets of 12 Nations

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the Armed Forces of 30 countries mass in

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Saudi Arabia and in the Arabian

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Gulf the UN Security Council has been in

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virtually permanent session since August

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the 2nd of this

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year the most comprehensive level of

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economic

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sanctions and the most tight blockades

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has been imposed upon the Republic of

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Iraq by the International

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Community what can it be that has moved

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the International Community to such

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extraordinary levels in the Arabian Gulf

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yet leaves them completely unmoved by

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the Flight of the people of

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Kashmir what can it be which has led the

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International Community to throw a

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shroud of Silence over the denial of the

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national rights of the Palestinian

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people for more than four

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decades Mak the move so Heaven and Earth

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to redress the Injustice committed in

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the Gulf I wonder if it's anything to do

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with that dirtiest of threel Works oil I

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wonder if it's anything to do with the

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self-interest of the big Powers I wonder

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if it's anything to do with the deths of

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their hypocrisy so far as international

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relations the United Nations excent in

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its a

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chapter in these ringing words

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declares All Peoples have the right to

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determine without external

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interference their political status and

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to pursue their economic social and

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cultural development and every state has

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the duty to respect this right well are

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the kashmiris not a

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people with a common culture a Common

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Language a common history a common

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experience which leads them to develop

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bonds of nationhood

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are the kashmiris not a nation have they

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no National rights and if they do when

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will the International Community stand

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up and say they must have the

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right and let us be clear on this

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question

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also self-determination is not about a

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people having the right to give only an

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answer self-determination means also

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that the people must have the right to

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frame the question as well as give the

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answer

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self-determination is not about my

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insisting that you choose a or b it's

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not about my asking you whether you want

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to be in the frying pan or in the

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fire choose the devil or the deep blue

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sea it's about my giving you the right

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to choose

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the questions and the answers and that

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is to that the International Community

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must put no limits on the kashmir's

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right to exercise under the United

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Nations Charter their right to choose

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their destination Independence autonomy

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India or Pakistan condominium status

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any but must have the right to choose

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theum beckons I want to close by saying

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this all over the world there are small

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peoples yearning to be free I myself and

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my colleague also Mike Watson are

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scottage we are demanding our rights to

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remain inside the British state in our

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case as is our choice but with

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substantial autonomy and a substantial

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change to our relationship to

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England there are peoples like the Scots

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like the kashmiris all over the world

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who live next to large sometimes

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overbearing neighbors who must have that

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right to self-define themselves and to

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Define their relationship to those

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neighbors AG it is vitally important

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that there is a Unity across the world

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amongst all small peoples yearning to

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exercise that self-determination

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and if I may the chair not his

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fault Mis announced me at the beginning

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I was awarded

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the in last

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year for services not to Pakistan in the

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abstract but for services to the

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struggle for the restoration of

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democracy in

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Pakistan but as I'm the holder of the

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award

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halam I guess that gives me the right to

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quote that great sages works on Unity

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faith and

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discipline he said we are going through

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fire the sunshine has yet to come but I

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have no doubt that with unity faith and

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discipline we will compare with any

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nation of the world are you prepared to

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undergo the fire you must make up your

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minds now we must sink individualism and

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Petty jealousies and make up our minds

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to serve the people with honesty and

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faithfulness we are passing through a

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period of fear danger and Menace We Must

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Have Faith Unity and discipline great

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words that could have been written about

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the current stage of the struggle of the

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people of Kashmir but not the least of

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those important parts is the world unity

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and the world discipline and I agreed

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with the contribution made by our friend

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from the United States on this question

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earlier Unity is a principle of the

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labor movement and from its cradle the

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British labor movement that Unity is

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strength if Unity is strength this Unity

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is disaster and indiscipline compounds

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that disaster in so far it's open to me

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to extend a fraternal hand to you and to

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offer some advice if I may be so bold

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with that it is that discipline and

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unity are key elements along with the

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courage which the Kashmir people are

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showing in large measure not

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[Applause]