India, Bangladesh working closely to strengthen bilateral cooperation: Ahamed
March 3rd, 2011 - 9:36 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Mar 3(ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed on Thursday said that India and Bangladesh are working closely to strengthen cooperation in a range of issues.
“India and Bangladesh are in the process of implementing several important decisions taken at various high level meetings. All outstanding issues between the two sides are being addressed expeditiously. Considerable progress has been achieved in many areas including power cooperation, water sharing and related issues and connectivity,” Ahamed said in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
Ahamed further emphasized that India facilitated electrification of Dahagram and Angarpota, while the Line of Credit agreement was signed in the presence of Finance Ministers of both the countries.
“Other areas of progress include signing of a MoU on Border Haat, India allowing the Nepalese trucks to enter 200 meters inside the Bangladesh border, designating Ashuganj in Bangladesh and Silghat in India as ports of call, holding of the meeting of the Joint Boundary Working Group in November 2010 and the Joint Rivers Commission in March 2010,” the Minister of State said. (ANI)
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