FOOD AID FOR BANGLADESH
NQ DATE
M/ 61 27 March 1973
FOOD AID FOR BANGLADESH
The Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Mr E. G. Whitlam, announced today that Australia would give
Bangladesh a gift of 12,600 metric tons of wheat.
0 Mr Whitlam said the gift was in response to appeals
by the Bangladesh Government and the Secretary-General of the
United Nations for assistance in supplying food grains to
Bangladesh.
0 The gift, valued at $ 940,000, augments the 54,000
metric tons of wheat which Australia shipped to Bangladesh
0 during 1972 and brings the value of Australian gift wheat to
Bangladesh during the current financial year to almost
million. Australia will pay the freight costs of the gift.
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