26061948 Cablegram dated 26 June 1948 from the Prime Minister for External Affairs of the Government of India to the Chairman of the Commission (S/AC.12/13)

26061948 Cablegram dated 26 June 1948 from the Prime Minister for External Affairs of the Government of India to the Chairman of the Commission (S/AC.12/13)

New Delhi, 26 June 1948

I have received Your Excellency's three telegrams dated 22 June 1948.

My Government notes that the Commission is coming to the Indian sub-continent with the most sincere desire to be of real service to them as well as to the Pakistan Government for the settlement of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and that, as regards its further dispositions, the Commission has reserved its decision. As was stated in my telegram to the President of the Security Council, the Government of India will be glad to confer with the Commission when it arrives in Delhi. We shall also give what assistance we can to the Commission's representative in securing residential and office accommodation for the Commission and its staff. We have not yet been told, however, what points the Commission would wish to discuss with us and should be glad if this information could be supplied urgently.

As regards the Commission's request that my Government nominate a liaison representative in terms of paragraph 16 of the Security Council's resolution of 21 April, I wish to inform you that my Government cannot reach any decision on this recommendation of the Council until after they have conferred with the Commission. Arrangements will be made, however, for a senior officer to maintain liaison between the Government of India and the Commission during the latter's stay in New Delhi.

(Signed) Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs, Govt. of India