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Pledge to abide by border guidelines

Border talks end; DG level meet in Dhaka on April 14

Staff Correspondent
The three-day meeting between Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Agartala in Tripura ended yesterday with commitments from both the sides to resolve different thorny issues having defence potential in accordance with the border guidelines.
"Both the sides agreed to abide by the 1975 Border Guideline with regard to construction of barbed wire fences, roads, bridges, culverts and concrete establishments," said Deputy Director General of BDR Brigadier General S M Golam
Rabbani, who led the eight-member Bangladesh team at the high-level talks.
The BSF accepted a BDR proposal to stop construction of barbed wire fences within 150 yards of the 'zero line' and resolve the issue at the highest level of the governments of Bangladesh and India, said a press release issued by the BDR headquarters yesterday.
Both the sides also agreed to combat smuggling and drug trafficking through the border.
IG of BSF for Assam, Meghalaya, Monipur and Nagaland Shri SC Srivastava led the 14-member Indian team.
The BSF agreed to search out and hand over to the BDR Bangladeshi 'terrorists' taking shelter in India, BDR sources said.
Talking to newsmen at Akhaura frontier check-post, Rabbani termed the Agartala meeting 'effective'. As a follow-up of the talks, a director general-level meeting between the two border forces will be held on April 14 in Dhaka to resolve the unresolved issues, he said.
Moreover, a modal officer (director operations)-level meeting between the BDR and BSF will be held at Haridaspur in Dinajpur in the last week of this month.
The BSF delegation at the meeting also agreed to withdraw their camp at Bholanathpur in Khagrachhari, set up on the zero line violating rules, BDR sources said.
The two sides discussed 18 common issues.
The meeting also decided to start a survey of the disputed 1,500 acres of land at Muhurir Char.
Our correspondent from Dinajpur reports: A sector commander-level meeting between the BDR and BSF at Atwari in Panchagarh district yesterday decided to work jointly to ease border tension and resolve the issues as per the border guidelines.
The BDR team raised the issues of BSF obstruction to the construction of a 160-metre embankment to protect Barshalu village at Atwari from river erosion , BSF's push-in bid and erection of barbed wire fencing.
The two sides agreed that construction of the dam would start on March 20, sources said.
Killing of innocent Bangladeshis by BSF, smuggling, drugs and arms trafficking, intrusion of BSF men into Bangladesh territory and some other issues also came up at the meeting.