Bangabandhu asks Adamjee workers to increase production

November 26, 1972      

EXPEDITE REPATRIATION

The governments of Bangladesh and India regretted Pakistan's failure to comply with the joint Indo-Bangladesh proposal to repatriate all families of Bangladesh nationals in Pakistan purely on humanitarian grounds, according to a foreign ministry announcement in Dhaka today. Earlier, the two governments had announced their decision to repatriate all families (children and women) of Pakistani civilian internees and prisoners of war now detained in India.

In response, the government of Pakistan announced its decision to permit as a first step 10,000 Bangalee women and children to leave Pakistan for Bangladesh. The two governments have requested Pakistan to inform the Swiss Embassy in Islamabad of the travel arrangements of families of Bangladeshi nationals from Pakistan at the earliest possible time.

BANGABANDHU ASSURES ADAMJEE WORKERS

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today urges workers of Adamjee Jute Mills to increase production and assures them that he would personally look into the problems of the mills. A large crowd of Adamjee Jute Mill workers came to meet Bangabandhu at his residence and apprised him of certain problems of the mill. The prime minister meets a delegation of the workers and assures them that he would hold discussions with all concerned in near future and would take steps for ensuring smooth production.

NEW BARTER TRADE AGREEMENT WITH SOVIET UNION

A new barter trade agreement is expected to be signed between Bangladesh and the Soviet Union providing for appreciable increase in the volume of trade between the two countries. This is disclosed to newsmen at Dhaka Airport by I.I. Grishin, Soviet deputy minister for foreign trade who arrived as the head of an eight-member trade delegation yesterday for talks with Bangladesh officials. He said that his country was satisfied with the turnout of the first barter trade with Bangladesh for the current year and was hopeful that a good increase would be possible in the coming year.

SOURCES: November 27, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.