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Indo-Bangla border dispute resolution very soon: Envoy
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 25
The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India, Tariq A Karim, today stated that India and Bangladesh would be arriving at a comprehensive agreement on the management of the international border that would put security concerns at rest.

“Meetings between the two sides are underway and the matter is expected to be finally settled ‘very soon’,” he said. This, he added, would enable both sides to focus their energies on their issues of mutual interests.

Karim said as of today, only six-and-a-half kilometres of the 4,096 km Indo-Bangla border remained disputed.

He was here to address delegates at a seminar on Cooperative Development, Peace and Security in South and Central Asia: Strengthening India-Bangladesh Relations held at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development.

Karim said following the joint communiqué issued by the Prime Ministers of both the countries in January last year, critically important steps had been taken in several areas. Security, border management, water management and sharing, trade and investment, energy and power, climate change, agricultural security regional connectivity and some multilateral initiatives were the broad arenas in which both sides were cooperating.

Scholars and experts from India as well as Bangladesh are participating in the seminar. Water development, productivity and sharing, regional connectivity, agriculture, food security and climate change, and energy and trade are among the themes on which presentations would be made during technical sessions.