Dhaka, June 1:
India and Bangladesh are expected to hold their bi-annual DG-level border talks in Delhi next week, the first such meeting after the BNP government took charge in Dhaka early this year.
Issues related to border fencing, attacks on Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, checking infiltration and cross-border crimes and handing over of illegal Bangladeshi migrants are likely to be part of the agenda for the talks, sources said.
A delegation of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) led by its Director General (DG) Maj Gen Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui is expected to be in the national capital between June 8 and 11 for the talks with his BSF counterpart.
India shares a 4,096 km-long international border with Bangladesh, out of which about 860 km remains unfenced, including 174.51 km of the “not feasible for fencing” gap.
Officials said that the BSF-BGB DG-level talks are to be held between June 8-11 at a BSF base in Delhi.
They said that issues related to cross-border crimes and mutual cooperation are expected to be the crux of discussions, as the agenda of talks between the two countries, by and large, remains the same. A joint record of discussions will be signed between the two sides on June 11, they said.