India, Bangladesh to exercise calm on border
By IANSThursday, June 24, 2010
SHILLONG - India’s Border Security Force (BSF) and its Bangladeshi counterpart Thursday agreed to exercise “utmost restraint” in areas of dispute along the border.
After a meeting with Deputy Director General of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Brigadier Obaidul Haque, BSF Inspector General R.C. Saxena said: “We have strongly voiced our concern and displeasure regarding recent unprovoked firing by them creating unnecessary tension along the border.”
BSF and BDR officials met at Dawki, 85 km south of Meghalaya’s capital Shillong, in the aftermath of BDR’s “unprovoked firing” June 15 that left a school teacher injured.
Saxena told IANS on telephone from Dawki that both sides had agreed that any violation of the border would be settled through discussions and not by confrontation.
“We have agreed that settlement of areas under adverse possession should be left to the joint working group of both nations scheduled to meet next month to find ways to settle outstanding border disputes,” Saxena said.
