Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Government of India propose that a conference at ministerial level
of the representatives of the Governments of Egypt, Turkey, Iran,
Afghanistan, China, Burma, Siam, Ceylon, Pakistan and Australia
should meet in New Delhi on 10th or 16th January to discuss ways
and means to deal with the Indonesian issue. The Indian Government
sincerely hope that you will respond favourably to the suggestion
which they are also conveying to you through Bedi. The Prime
Minister has asked us to support it to you.
Nehru feels that continued Dutch intransigence is more than a mere
possibility and that the Indonesian cause will be greatly helped
if interested governments in the region were to consider among
themselves what action they should take to help the Security
Council deal effectively with Dutch resistance in defiance or
evasion of the proposals for a prompt and just settlement of the
Indonesian problem. The conference is stated to be not designed to
supersede the Security Council but only to lend the Council the
support derived from the united understanding of the countries of
this region amongst themselves.