UN Admission Committee’s meeting on Bangladesh tomorrow

August 20, 1972

MUJIB LEAVES FOR GENEVA TOMORROW

Bangladesh Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will leave for Geneva tomorrow morning as planned for 10 days of convalescence following his gallbladder surgery in London on July 31. He will be accompanied by his wife Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, personal physician Dr Nurul Islam and his advisers.

BANGLADESH AWAITS UN ADMISSION COMMITTEE'S MEETING OUTCOME

The United Nations Security Council members have been reportedly split over whether to hold voting on Bangladesh's membership application or put off voting to avoid a Chinese veto. The Council Committee on Admission of new members will meet privately tomorrow to decide what the Council should do with Bangladesh's application.

Bangladesh government is waiting for the outcome of the United Nation Security Council's Admission Committee meeting to decide its future course of action to get membership of the world body. The general feeling is that even at this stage the procedure would be arranged in such a way that a veto by China would prove useless, involving possibly a postponement of a formal vote on the application. 

KEEP FOOD ABOVE POLITICS

Phani Bhushan Majumdar, minister for food and civil supplies, appeals today to all concerned to keep food above politics and lend all support to the government to bring down the food prices. The government has been giving topmost priority on the procurement of food grains from abroad and their quicker movement to the distribution points to meet the requirement of the people, he adds. 

CLOTH PRICE FIXED

Commerce Minister MR Siddiqui says that the government has fixed the price of cloth and asks the people not to buy cloths at higher than the price fixed by the government. He also asks people to hand over to police anyone who is found violating the government fixed rate.

SOURCES: August 21, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.