745.45F/1–248: Telegram
The Chargé in Pakistan (Lewis) to the Secretary of State
3. Following message from Prime Minister acting in absence Minister Foreign Affairs has just been handed to me by Ikramullah, Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
Mytel 2 of January 2.1
“The Pakistan Government appreciate the message from the US Government2 regarding the Kashmir question and reciprocate their feelings of friendship. The Pakistan Government have throughout been making strenuous efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of the various questions outstanding between the two dominions including that of Kashmir; but unfortunately every proposal made by them had been turned down by the India Government. The Pakistan Government, therefore, welcome the approach to the UNSC. They wish to assure the Government of the US that at no stage did they have any intention of taking any provocative or precipitate action, and that they are firmly determined to continue their efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of all outstanding questions and that they will continue in the future as in the past to do their best to restrain any irresponsible elements in Pakistan”. British colleague informed.
Sent Department as 3; repeated New Delhi 2.
- Not printed.↩
- For text of U.S. note, transmitted in telegram 221 to Karachi, December 31, 1947 (not printed) and delivered by the Chargé to Ikramullah in absence of the Foreign Minister (745.45F/1–248), see identic note transmitted in telegram 817 to New Delhi, December 31, 1947, Foreign Relations, 1947, vol. iii, p. 192.↩