Nasser And Nehru Shocked By Killings In Union

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29178, 12 April 1960, Page 17

Nasser And Nehru Shocked By Killings In Union

NEW DELHI, April 10.

President Nasser, of the United Arab Republic, and the Indian Prime Minister (Mr Nehru) today expressed “shock and profound regret at the recent large-scale killing of innocent people in the Union of South Africa.”

“These events have shocked the conscience of civilised people ali over the world, and the President and the Prime Minister expressed the hope that the weight of world opinion would be. brought to bear on the authorities responsible for the adoption and execution of such policies,” they said in a joint communique issued at the end of President Nasser’s 13-day visit to India. ’ They expressed regret at French atomic tests in the Sahara and hoped they would be discontinued. Welcoming progress at the Geneva test ban talks, they hoped "final agreement would be reached without further delay.”

They hoped the summit meeting and disarmament talks would be successful and "reiterated their faith in the policy of non-align-ment and their resolve to maintain friendly relations with all countries.’* They also “reiterated their view that the question of Palestine should be solved in conformity with the provisions of the United Nations Charter, the resolution of the United Nations, and the principles unanimously adopted at the Bandung Conference of 1955 for the peaceful settlement of the Palestine question.” President Nasser was greeted by cheering thousands when he

arrived in Karachi later today on a six-day official visit to Pakistan.

President Nasser’s visit to Pakistan is his second in five years. Diplomats have described it as the most significant since President Eisenhower was in Karachi last December. The U.A.R. leader is known to have disapproved of Pakistan’s membership of military pacta, particularly the Central Treaty Organisation, which succeeded the Bagdad Pact Indications here have been that Pakistan would prefer to avoid discussing with President Nasser its military affiliations but should the question arise, Pakistan will stress its belief in the need for defensive alliances against Communist pressure—both Soviet and Chinese—from the north. Pakistan’s President (FieldMarshal Ayub Khan) received President Nasser at Karachi Airport to the booming of a 21-gun salute and the loud applause of the crowd.

As the two drove out from the airport on the eight-mile route to the city, spectators standing several rows deep on both sides of the road cheered loudly..