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Khaleda leaves for Harare today

More active role for C’wealth aimed at

By Staff Correspondent
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia leaves Dhaka tonight for Harare via Jeddah as head of the Bangladesh delegation to the week long 1 1th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) beginning Wednesday.
Begum Zia will perform Urnrah in Mecca on Tuesday before leaving for Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
This is for the first lime that Begum Zia will attend an international conference as the head of a democratically elected government. She will be one of the five Commonwealth leaders to reply to the address of welcome by Robert Mugabe, president of the host country. Zimbabwe.
The main thrust of the conference will be on a con-
certed attempt by the Heads of Government to chalk out a more active and dynamic role for the Commonwealth in the 1990s and beyond.
The Prime Minister’s entourage will Include Foreign Minister ASM Mustaflzur Rahman, Parliament Members Begum Raushan Elahi. Ahsanul Huq Mollah and Sardar Sak-hawat Hossain Baku), Foreign Secretary Rcaz Rahman and Bangladesh High Commissioners In London and Harare.
The summit will take place at the magnificent Harare International Conference Centre down Samora Machel Avenue, the capital's main thoroughfare.
Coinciding with the sununit will be an official visit to
Zimbabwe by Queen Elizabeth II, head of the Commonwealth, and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Queen, as to the custom on these occasions, will meet the leaders Informally and hold a banquet In their honour.
This year's conference is being held In the backdrop of momentous changes tn the global politics. The summit will see ten new faces, three alone from the sub-continent — Bangladesh, India and Pakistan — since the lust summit in Kuala Lumpur.
The other countries where new faces arc at the lop Include Great Britain. New Zealand. Grenada. Singapore, Nigeria. Namibia and Tonga.
A four-memlH-r m nior official delegation Icil for Harare in the early hours of Saturday to attend the CHOGM senior officials meeting, which will be held on October 14. The officials are : Foreign Secretary Rcaz Rahman. Director General of International Organisations (IO) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, M Ruhul Amin, Syed Jomaluddln, joint chief of the External Resources Division (ERD), and Director IO in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, M Amir Hussain SIkder.
To forge a Commonwealth role for the 1990s and into the nekt century. Heads of Government at Kuala Lumpur set up a High-Level Appraisal Group of ten national leaders to identify tasks the Commonwealth could fulfil and examine the adequacy of its institutions.
The Group is chaired by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Bj^mSS^oR'lo^W summit. Other members are the Heads of Government of Australia, the Bahamas. Britain, Canada, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Singapore and Zambia.
The meeting of the ten Heads of Government was first scheduled to be held in London in January 1991 but postponed because of the Gulf conflict. It was rescheduled for 11-12 June, 1991, but again postponed when political de-
velopments in India and Australia prevented those Prime Ministers from attending. The ten leaders are now due to meet In Harare, on October IS, on the eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to which their report will be submitted.
The Commonwealth increased from 48 lo 50 members during the last two years.
The Prime Minister Begum Zia will conn- l>.ick lo the country on October 23 via London. During her stay in Harare she is likely lo call on Queen Elizabeth II, and oilier I leads of Government