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Teesta, Land Deals

Dhaka wants quick move by Delhi

Diplomatic Correspondent
Bangladesh has conveyed to India its sense of urgency regarding a fast-track implementation of the commitments made at the highest political level, including water sharing deal and ratification of the protocol to the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement.
”It will not give a positive signal in the public domain if the commitments are not implemented expeditiously. The way the commitments FROM PAGE 20
were made seriously, similarly those should be implemented urgently," Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes has said.
Speaking at a press briefing yesterday on his return from the annual Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) in New Delhi, he said Bangladesh had requested India for a fast-track implementation of the agreement on land boundary demarca-tion and exchange of
adversely-held enclaves and land, signed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka on September 6 last year, "as it is important to deliver on it".
The foreign secretary said: "We have been assured by the Indian side that efforts are on to implement the land boundary agreement."
In this context, he stated that the Indian Cabinet Committee on Security on Thursday cleared the agreement which would be placed in parliament for ratification on completion of other legal formalities.
Quayes said a host of issues of cross-border crimes, border killings, extradition treaty, import of power, implementation of projects under an Indian loan of$l billion, connectivity, Tipaimukh dam and Indian river-linking scheme figured prominently at the consultation held on July 24.
On border killings, he said Dhaka had reiterated its concerns over the killing of civilians in firing by BSE His counterpart Ranjan Mathai, who led the Indian side at the consultation, assured Dhaka that the BSF would maintain maximum restraint so that no Bangladeshi was killed at
die border.
The foreign secretary said illegal activities in the border had been reduced significantly and the number of deaths had also declined. He made it clear, however, that "not a single death at the border is acceptable to us."
Quayes said there had been a highest level commitment from India to bring down the killing at the border to zero level, which needs to be implemented. Mathai assured him that he would sit with the Indian Border Security Force to make it happen.
On the killing of two Bangladeshis recently at the border by the BSE he said once the foreign ministry came by the details of the incidents from Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB), the government will raise the matter with the Indian authorities.
He said during the meeting he had stressed an early conclusion of theTeesta water sharing deal and the protocol to the Land Boundary Agreement by settling internal disputes by India.
On the Teesta accord, which was scuppered by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's last-
minute objections, the foreign secretary said: "From the discussions I have had so far the sense I get is that India is serious to sign the agreement sooner than later.
"Things appear to be moving forward to the agreement and Bangladesh wants to give space to India to finish its internal consultations on the Teesta issue," he added.
On the Tipaimukh dam project, he said the joint experts' group would hold its first meeting in New Delhi on August 27-28 to study its impact.
Speaking about the Indian river-linking project, Quayes said India reiterated that it would not involve the river system of the Himalayan component; it would rather be based on rivers originating in India.
The foreign secretary said the two sides had agreed to develop infrastructure at the land custom stations. A team from India will visit Bangladesh to carry out feasibility studies on infrastructure development at Ashuganj.
Foreign ministry directors general Masud Md Khandaker (SAARC, BIMSTEC and