3 Arab states will support UN entry
September 2, 1972
SAMAD CALLS ON BANGABANDHU IN GENEVA
Bangladesh Foreign Miniser Abdus Samad Azad arrives in Geneva this morning. He drives straight to Hotel Le Reserve where Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is staying and calls on him. The foreign minister makes a detailed report to the prime minister on his mission to three Arab countries. Iraq, Egypt and Syria assured him that they would support Bangladesh's application for UN membership, he informs.
BHUTTO REFUSED INDIAN OFFER ON POWS
India has made an offer to Pakistan to repatriate the Pakistani prisoners of war captured on the western front last December but Pakistani President Bhutto declined to take them back, Indian External Affairs Minister Sardar Swaran Singh discloses today in Delhi. He says this while replying to a discussion at the Lok Sabha on the recent Indo-Pak official level talks.
Bhutto had refused to take the POWs of the western front back on the grounds that the question of all the prisoners of war was a single one and no difference could be made between prisoners of one front and another. Bhutto was then told by India that the Pakistani soldiers and civilians taken prisoner on the eastern front could not be released without the concurrence of Bangladesh, adds Swaran Singh.
The Indian offer to Pakistan was made at Simla.
GOVT FIRM TO EASE FOOD SITUATION
Acting Prime Minister Syed Nazrul Islam declares in Chittagong today that the government would not allow a single man to die of starvation. The government has already taken emergency measures to meet the food shortage. However, the situation of strain is likely to continue till next harvest in December, he adds. According to emergency measures, Syed Nazrul says, movement of food grains would be given priority over everything, particularly at the ferry crossings. He stresses on the proper distribution of flour in rural areas where conditions are especially bad.
SOURCES: September 3, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.
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