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PM set to visit India

By Taufique Imrose Khalidi
Prime Minister Khaleda Zhi will be paying a four-day official visit to India sometime tn the last week of this month and a probable date of departure for New Delhi could be May 25. sources said
According to the sources, after weeks of consultations between the officials of the two countries, the trip, up in the air for a few months, has taken shape
Last week. Indian Prime Minister Naraatmha Rao told a group of Bangladeshi journalists tn New Delhi that he was eager to meet his Bangladesh counterpart to discuss all the bilateral issues with a view to finding their solution.
Officials sav that her talks with the Indian Prime Minister will chiefly focus on the outstanding Issues like the water-sharing of the Ganges, return of the tribals refuged in the Indian state of Tripura
They suggest that the visit will "geperate new expectations- for the improvement of the bilateral ties and "pave the way for dialogue at different levels to resolve the issues."
Last month, the two coun tries held ministerial level talks on water-sharing In the backdrop of an all time low flow of the Ganges but failed to produce results, leading to speculations that the Prime Ministerial trip has become uncertain.
At the talks where Agricul ture. Water Development and Flood Control Minister M Ma Jld ul-Haq led the Bangladesh delegation, a source said. Dhaka tabled 'a new proposal" The source, who declined to be identified, refused to elaborate.
"We re confident that India understands the magnitude of the problem.' says a senior Foreign Ministry official adding that we believe they 11 come forward in a spirit of good neighbourliness" to solve the Issues.
The official, however, says. "It is not that the Prime Minister s visit will solve all the outstanding issues but it will certainly give political direction to the officials of both sides dealing with the things."
Dhaka officials say that a long-standing problem has been resolved with the agree ment on the transfer of Tin Bigha. They point out that a
date has been set for the handing over of the corridor and add that India should also respond positively on the water-sharing.
On March 26. senior officials of the two countries signed a memorandum that the corridor would be handed over on June 26.
Foreign Minister ASM Mustafizur Rahman during his visit to India insisted that the Tin Bigha transfer would restore the credibility of India to the people of Bangladesh.
"Die good will' visit of the Prime Minister, first as the head of the government to the country, will also take her to the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, sources said
In May last year, the Prime Minister had been to New Delhi to attend the funeral of the late Indian Prime Minister Rajtv Gandhi.
India's Interim Prime Minister Chandrasekhar came to Bangladesh to sympathise with the victims of the April 29 elemental swoop last year.
The two Prime Ministers will also deliberate on the future of the SAARC Dhaka hosts the summit of the fledgling regional body tn December this year.
Meanwhile. Ambassador Farooq Sobhan. now an Additional Foreign Secretary, has been appointed Dhakas envoy to New Delhi and will leave for the Indian capital shortly.
Last Wednesday, the new Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh. K Raghunath, presented his credentials.