Pakistan is in a difficult situation. She has been in three wars with India. a nation of much larger resources. much greater military capability. She has concern that now her neighbor to the north is occupied by the Soviet Union with the effects increasingly spilling over into Pakistan. not only military attacks. not only sabotage but the whole matter of the burden which 3 million Afghan refugees within the borders of Pakistan represent in the way of social difficulties. economic difficulties. political difficulties. And let us remember. Pakistan. in a great humanitarian gesture. is sheltering upwards of more than 3 million Afghan refugees who. incidentally. are not confined by barbed wire fences. who instead are free to move about to engage in businesses. to sell their labor. Pakistan has done a magnificant job. despite all of her own enormous problems. has done a magnificent job in harboring and sheltering this refugee population which is now the largest single refugee population in the world. So we must be very careful in how we proceed. I think it is well that we adopt this resolution tonight to undergird the mission of Secretary Armacost.
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