November 3, 1972         

ALL ARTICLES AND SCHEDULES ADOPTED

The Gono Parishad adopts all 153 Articles with some amendments. The House also adopts the first, second, third and fourth schedules with a number of amendments. The whole of the Constitution Bill, excepting the Preamble, has thus been adopted by the House. An amendment moved by Suranjit Sengupta to Article 73 is also accepted by the House. This is the first amendment moved by any opposition or independent member that is accepted. 

BANGABANDHU'S COOPERATIVE DAY MESSAGE 

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman calls upon the people to shake off age-old systems of cooperative and build up new cooperative institutions suitable for a modern society. In a message on the occasion of observance of National Cooperative Day the prime minister says his government has attached due importance to cooperatives in the national reconstruction programmes and that the economic emancipation of the toiling masses could be possible through effective implementation of cooperative principles. The cooperative is a strong step towards socialisation of the economy, he adds. 

$75.5M CANADIAN AID FOR BANGLADESH

The Canadian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Gordon Riddell discloses in Dhaka today that the Canadian Parliament has granted an amount of Tk 58.9 crore ($75.5 million) to assist Bangladesh for rehabilitation of the war-ravaged country. Riddel expresses his confidence that besides the present assistance to Bangladesh there would be fruitful and useful economic cooperation between the governments of Canada and Bangladesh in the future.   

HUNGARY-BANGLADESH JOINT COMMUNIQUE

Bangladesh and Hungary today expresses firm determination to make further efforts for intensifying many-sided cooperation in their mutual interest and for strengthening of friendship between the two countries. In a joint communique issued in Dhaka after the four-day official visit of Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad to Hungary the governments agree to establish closer economic ties. The two governments also identify the existence of the scope for long-term cooperation in the development of economic and trade relations on the basis of mutual interests.

SOURCES: November 4, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.