December 10, 1972       

USSR, CHILE FOR BANGLADESH'S EARLY ENTRY

The Soviet Union and Chile today call for the speedy recognition of the lawful aspiration of the People's Republic of Bangladesh as regards its admission to the United Nations. It is mentioned in a joint communique issued today in Moscow at the end of the four-day visit to the Soviet Union of President Salvador Allende of Chile. The Bangladesh reference is identical in content to those in recent communiques signed by the Soviet Union with Bulgaria and Hungary after high-level exchanges. 

SAMAD'S REPLY TO BHUTTO

Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad today reiterates the government's determination to put the people responsible for genocide in Bangladesh on trial. Those who organised the genocide scheme and were linked with committing the genocide should be tried under the Bangladesh laws and in accordance to the Geneva Convention, he adds.

Referring to Bhutto's threat to try the innocent Bangalees stranded in Pakistan, the foreign minister asks the world conscience to consider Bhutto's speech as part of the scheme of Pakistan rulers to wipe out the Bangalee nation. He asks those who are questioning the trial of war criminals in the name of Geneva Convention to see if these innocent Bangalees stranded in Pakistan committed any such crimes as Pakistani hoarders and their local collaborators did in Bangladesh during the Liberation War.

$25M IDA CREDIT FOR BANGALDESH

The International Development Agency has extended 25 million dollars' credit to Bangladesh to finance its massive rehabilitation and cyclone protection programme in coastal areas. The main elements of the programme being financed by IDA are water transport, equipment, landing facilities to improve land water transportation, telecommunication and improved warning system.

SOURCES: December 11, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.