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This is an archive article published on July 31, 2011

India,Bangladesh sign pact on border security

India and Bangladesh inked a key agreement aimed at enhancing quality of border management and ensuring cross-frontier security.

India and Bangladesh Saturday inked a key agreement aimed at enhancing quality of border management and ensuring cross-frontier security through measures like joint vigils to deal with human trafficking and smuggling of drugs and weapons.

The agreement was signed in presence of Home Minister P Chidambaram and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sahara Khatun in Dhaka.

We have just signed the agreement Border Management Coordination Plan for a comprehensive and joint management of all frontier issues, Khatun said after her meeting with Chidambaram,which came ahead of the September visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh..

Chidambaram said the pact would resolve all frontier issues,including combating cross-border crimes. It will enhance quality of border management as well as ensure security, he said.

 

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