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SQ Chy chosen to run for OIC top post

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Bangladesh has nominated Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to run for secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in the 2004 polls.
The decision of nominating the prime minister's adviser on parliamentary affairs was revealed at the foreign ministry's weekly press briefing yesterday.
"The campaign (in favour of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury) has officially been launched," Foreign Secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told reporters. But no other countries have so far announced their candidatures for FROM PAGE 12 the post, he said.
The foreign secretary requested envoys of the OIC member states in Dhaka on May 21 to inform their governments about Bangladesh's candidature for the polls in December 2004.
Moroccan national Abdul Wahid Belkaziz, who was elected OIC secretary general in June 2000, completes his four-year term next year. The top office of the Jeddahbased organisation had been held by another Moroccan for four years until June 2000.
Bangladesh nominated the then speaker of the House Humayun Rasheed Chowdhury for OIC secretary general in the 2000 polls but backtracked just ahead of the election.
Bangladesh's candidature may also come up for discussion on the sidelines of a May 28 conference of the foreign ministers of OIC states in Tehran.
About Iraq's representation to the Tehran conference, Chowdhury described the question of Iraqi representation as pointless, as Iraq has no government for now.
He hoped many problems arising from the Iraq war would be resolved, with the adoption of a new resolution on Iraq at the UN Security Council in a few days.
The shipment of the first consignment of relief from Bangladesh, which includes medicine, will begin by May-end, Chowdhury said.
On Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri's expected visit to Bangladesh next month, the foreign secretary said the schedule of her visit was being worked out.
About the May 31-June 2 ministerial-level meeting of 39 least developed countries (LDCs), Chowdhury said the Dhaka meeting would lay out strategies for the LDCs in the build-up to next September's WTO meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
He also spoke on a newspaper report quoting the finance minister that Bangladesh proposed free trade to India and said that India made the proposal and Bangladesh was examining it.
The work on the Bangladesh-Myanmar road communication is going on, he told the reporters. The Myanmar government is keen to complete the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh soon, said the foreign secretary.