Bangla envoy addresses meet on South & Central Asian ties

‘Water development and sharing’,‘regional connectivity’,‘agiculture and food security’,‘climate change’ and ‘energy cooperation’ between India and Bangladesh are the key issues identified in the joint communique. These issues will be discussed by the delegates at the session titled “Dialogue on Co-operative Development,Peace and Security in South and Central Asia: Strengthening India-Bangladesh Relations”.

“A number of agreements and joint surveys are underway between the two nations. While both the governments are working in harmony towards the mutual development,we aim to extend the virtues of cooperation among the common people,as well,both in India and Bagladesh. This is the whole idea behind organising such dialogues,” Jayant Prasad told Newsline .

“Looking at the level of co-operation between the two countries,we expect to resolve our long time disputes relating ownership of Teesta river and Maritime border,very soon,” Prasad added.

Meanwhile,the Bangldeshi High Commissioner said that the five key areas of concern,listed above,are common to all the eight nations in the South and Central Asia including- India,Bangladesh,Pakistan,Afghanistan,Bhutan,Nepal,Maldives and Sri lanka.

“Since we all have common enemies in the name of these issues,we need to establish a multi-lateral co-operation agreement,among all and bilateral agreements between each other mutually,” Tariq A Karim said. The joint communique was issued by India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina during the latter’s visit to India in January last year.

“CRRID has been involved in research in the area of Co-operative Development,Peace and Security in South and Central Asia since last one decade. Our organisation aims to facilitate these nations in addressing the issues with the help of our research papers,” CRRID’s Director General,Sucha Singh Gill said.