22031949--35  Text of the Letter dated 22 March 1949 from the Secretary General of the Ministry of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, Government of India, addressed to the Chairman of the Commission Mr. G.S. Bajpai regarding the Pakistan representative in Srinagar (UN Document No. S/AC.12/157)

22031949--35  Text of the Letter dated 22 March 1949 from the Secretary General of the Ministry of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, Government of India, addressed to the Chairman of the Commission Mr. G.S. Bajpai regarding the Pakistan representative in Srinagar (UN Document No. S/AC.12/157)

Kindly refer to your letter, dated the 21st March. When the idea of associating a representative of Pakistan with the Commission was mentioned to me, I think by Ambassador Huddle, I explained to him orally that it would not be possible. for us to agree to have such a representative in Srinagar or anywhere else in the part of Jammu and Kashmir State under our control. The Government of Jammu and Kashmir, whom we have consulted, consider, and they have good reason for doing so, that the establishment of such an officer, with or without a staff in their capital, would merely create a focus for intrigue against them. The Government of India does not feel justified in overruling the Government of Jammu and Kashmir In a matter of this kind. We have not asked, at any time, that a representative of ours should go to the territory held by "Azad Kashmir" and we do not see why we should be asked to extend to Pakistan facilities which we do not expect and for which we have not asked.

(Signed) G.S. Bajpai