UN General Assembly
1959

13. It may not be out of place here to refer to the events that have occurred in our part of the world involving the Peopled Republic of China, and which have disturbed people in different parts of the world. What is our attitude — and our reaction — to these developments? Our attitude is as follows: We have tried to foster and develop the best of relations and friendship on the basis of the Pancha Shila, with the People's Republic of China for the past so many years: and as far as we are concerned, we intend to continue to pursue this policy. Again, it is well known that we have had long, intimate historical, economic, religious and cultural ties with Tibet, and our religious and cultural ties have been particularly profound. The recent developments in our immediate neighbourhood have made us very worried and anxious. For this reason, we deeply regret the unhappy events in Tibet which have led the Dalai Lama to leave his own country and which have led to some misunderstanding being developed between India and China, our two great neighbours. We sincerely hope that the border dispute between India and China, if it arises, will be solved in the way in which it was said at the 1955 Bandung Conference that such disputes would be solved, by negotiation, not by force.