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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s five-day Soviet tour ends today. In his farewell message to the people and the government of the Soviet Union,

The joint declaration signed in Moscow upon conclusion of talks between Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Soviet Leaders says, “Both governments have agreed to hold regular consultations between the two governments at various levels on all important matters involving the interests of both the states.”

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman meets the Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny at Kremlin today. The two leaders discuss strengthening and developing friendship and cooperation between their two countries as well as certain international problems.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev hold a discussion on the question of further developing and consolidating relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

Talks between the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman opens in Kremlin. The talk starts shortly after the arrival of Bangabandhu in Moscow.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman leaves today on a five-day state visit to the Soviet Union carrying a message of friendship from the people of Bangladesh.

A high-powered Soviet economic team calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares that commissions will be set up to appoint suitable persons in government services according to merit.

Bangabandhu calls for agricultural revolution to make the country self-sufficient in food production.

Paul Mark Henry, assistant secretary-general of the UN, today makes an unscheduled air-dash to his headquarters in New York following two consecutive meetings with Bangabandhu.

The government has decided that organisations and functionaries such as zonal council, zonal administration, civil liaison officer,

Bangabandhu appeals to the UN secretary-general to use his office urgently to alleviate the plight of the Bangalee population living in different parts of Pakistan. He also requests the UN secretary-general to send his special representative to Pakistan for this purpose.

In an interview with BTV on the reminiscence of 1952, Bangabandhu says, “Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, had no sympathy for Bengalees.

Bangabandhu today visits Ramgati in Noakhali and Shantirhat in Bhola. This is the prime minister’s second visit to the rural areas of Bangladesh after his assumption of office.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been empowered by the working committee of Awami League to form a committee to reorganise the party to provide the people leadership.

Bangabandhu says that although he has friendly feelings towards the people of USA, he cannot support President Richard Nixon’s administration, which has still not recognised Bangladesh.

The working committee of Awami League, in its first meeting after the Liberation War held in Dhaka today, discusses the political and economic situation in the country and matters relating to the party.

Bangabandhu issues a strong warning to miscreants and hooligans who are harassing innocent people and looting their properties. The prime minister says that these elements will be dealt “with a heavy hand by the government”.

In a broadcast to the nation on the occasion of the National Martyrs’ Day, Bangabandhu says that the language movement was not only a movement centred around the language issue, it was also a movement aimed at the establishment of the rights of the people of Bangladesh. It was the movement for liberation, he adds.

Bangabandhu warmly greets Senator Edward Kennedy, his wife Joan B Kennedy and his nephew Joseph Kennedy at the prime minister’s residence. Russel, the youngest son of the prime minister, speeds past his father to be the first to greet the senator.