October 4, 1972

UN OFFICIALS DISCUSS FOOD WITH BANGABANDHU

UN officials now on a visit in Dhaka -- Sir Robert Jackson, Urquhart and Lansky -- have an hourlong discussion on relief operations in Bangladesh with Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gono Bhaban today. Robert Jackson communicates to the prime minister greetings from the UN secretary general. The visiting team of UN officials is learnt to have discussed prospects of UNROD's operation in Bangladesh, besides the current relief effort. They also discuss the food and transport situation of the country.

'NO PREJUDICE AGAINST BANGABANDHU'

China claims in the UN General Assembly today that it cherishes friendly sentiments for the people of "East Bengal" and it has no prejudice against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. However, it makes it clear that it would not retreat from its earlier stance against the admission of Bangladesh into the UN.

HIGH-LEVEL MEET REVIEWS TEA PRODUCTION

Bangabandhu today presides over a high-level conference which reviews various aspects of tea such as production , plantation and export.

KHAS LAND FOR LANDLESS PEASANTS

Land administration and revenue minister Abdur Rab Serniabat today says that the government has decided to distribute two and a half acres of khas land -- one and a half acre for cultivation and one acre for homestead -- to landless peasants. Peasants receiving these khas lands would have to till their land through agriculture cooperative system. The government is determined to bring about revolutionary land reform in the country, adds the minister.

Sources: October 5 ,1972 issues of Daily Observer, Dainik Ittefaq and Dainik Bangla.