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Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Denounces the U.N.

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On December 15, 1971, at the United Nations Security Council meeting, Pakistan's foreign minister bursts into an angry and tearful tirade, accusing the council of legalizing aggression while the Indo-Pakistani War rages on.

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