Resist Pak manoeuvres, Dhaka urges UN Council

August 24, 1972

RECOMMEND ADMISSION TO WORLD BODY

The Bangladesh Government today asks the Security Council to pronounce "speedily and favourably" on its application for membership of the United Nations, "resisting the unjustified manoeuvres" of Pakistan to block its entry. It urges the Council that it should recommend Bangladesh's admission as a member of the world body "in the larger interest of fulfilling the objectives of the United Nations Charter and in the interest of peace and stability in the sub-continent".

In a four-page letter the Bangladesh government charges the Pakistan authority with raising irrelevant matters and making misleading statements with the sole purpose of delaying the admission of Bangladesh to the UN.

On the eve of the consideration of the application of Bangladesh for UN membership by the Security Council, Pakistan has insisted that Bangladesh does not qualify for membership of the world body as long as the Security Council resolution of December 21, 1971 is not implemented. 

AMBASSADORS' MEET PUT OFF

The Bangladesh envoys' conference scheduled to be addressed by Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been finally dropped following the doctor's advice of "complete and undisturbed rest" to Bangabandhu, who had undergone a gallbladder surgery in London on July 31.

SADRUDDIN WILL MEET BANGABANDHU

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, High Commissioner for Refugee Relief, will call on Bangabandhu on August 27.

CLOTH WORTH TK 5 CRORE TO BE IMPORTED FROM INDIA

MR Siddiqui, trade and commerce minister, discloses today that the government will import Tk 5 crore worth of cloth from India. The cloth will arrive by air in mid-September. This arrangement is made as an immediate step to tide over the cloth crisis.

The minister further informs that the government is planning to boost the country's tea exports.

SOURCES: August 25, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.