‘A strong, united and determined nation’
FEBRUARY 28, 1972
BANGABANDHU MEETS SOVIET ECONOMIC TEAM
A high-powered Soviet economic team calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today. It is understood that they discussed the upcoming visit of the PM to Moscow. The Soviet team is assessing the economic requirements of Bangladesh for rehabilitation of the economy as well as for future development plans.
CABINET MEETS
The Cabinet today meets for about nine hours in two separate sessions. The cabinet meeting presided over by Bangabandhu is understood to have discussed the matters likely to come up in discussions between the governments of Bangladesh and USSR 3during the prime minister's visit to Moscow.
MUJIB BAHINI ALSO CEASES TO EXIST
Bangladesh government has decided that all organisations and functionaries such as zonal council, zonal administrator, civil liaison officer, Mukti Fouz organisations including Mujib Bahini and all other such Bahinis constituted during or soon after the war of liberation would cease to function with immediate effect. They are prohibited from acquiring, taking over or holding any property in any manner whatsoever and from issuing any order in the name of their abolished offices, a government press note declares. Henceforth, the functions of these organisations will belong to the civil administration, it further adds.
RESTRICTIONS ON BANK WITHDRAWALS WAIVED
The Bangladesh Bank reviews the restriction on operation of accounts and raises the ceiling of withdrawals by individual Bangalees from Rs. 1500 to Rs.5000 a month. The existing restrictions on operation of accounts by Pakistani nationals, however, will remain in force until further order.
POSTER CONTAINS BANGABANDHU'S APPEAL
A large number of posters containing an appeal by Bangabandhu to banish communalism have been put up on walls in Jaipur, India. The posters published by All India Sampradaikata Virodh Committee contains a big sketch of Bangabandhu in the background along with a message that says: "Call upon the people of India to banish communalism. We have banished that scourge from our country."
UN FAILED TO STOP GENOCIDE
In his speech at Dhaka University, John Stonehouse, member of the British Parliament, accused the UN of failure in its basic responsibility to stop genocide in Bangladesh and says that the world body has become a "mere club of big power politics". Paying tributes to Bangladesh, Stonehouse says, "Your freedom has been forged by one of the worst ordeals of suffering that the world has seen. And as a result, you have emerged as strong, united and determined nation."
SOURCES: February 29, 1972 issues of Dainik Bangla, The Daily Ittefaq, Azad, Morning News, The Bangladesh Observer and Purbodesh.
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