PM returns to Delhi after Dhaka visit (Lead)
September 7th, 2011 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned to New Delhi Wednesday after a two-day visit to Bangladesh, during which the two countries inked pacts on key issues, including resolving their boundary row. The Teesta river water accord, however, did not fructify.
Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh was the first by an Indian prime minister in 12 years.
During his visit, the two countries signed a framework agreement on cooperation for development and a protocol on demarcating their land boundary, a pact to facilitate overland transit to Nepal and on conserving the Royal Bengal Tiger and the Sundarbans.
There were Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) in fisheries, cooperation between Dhaka University and Jawaharlal Nehru University, cooperation between Doordarshan and Bangladesh Television and between the fashion technology institutes of the two countries.
The Teesta water accord did not happen after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee protested against it, a move that the Bangladeshi media criticized.
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Chief Ministers Tarun Gogoi of Assam, Manik Sarkar of Tripura, Pu Lalthanhawla of Mizoram and Mukul Sangma of Meghalaya accompanied Manmohan Singh to Dhaka.
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