Dhaka, Feb 16 (V7N) –The 55th border conference at the directors general level of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF), spanning four days, will begin in New Delhi, India on Monday.
“A 13-member BGB delegation led by its DG will take part in the conference. Apart from the senior BGB officials, officials from the Chief Adviser's Office, the Home Ministry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Shipping Ministry, the Department of Land Records and Survey, and the Joint-River Commission will represent the talks,” said a BGB press release issued on Sunday afternoon.
Senior BSF officials, high officials of the Indian central home and external ministries will attend the conference.
The border conference will officially conclude on Thursday. The Bangladesh delegation is expected to return home on the same day.
At the DG-level conference, various bilateral issues such as border killings, illegal intrusion, construction of unauthorized infrastructures, violations of international boundary law, Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP), construction of barbed wire within 150 yards on the frontiers, other development works and establishing suitable water refinery to remove wastewater from Agartala to Akhaura are likely to dominate the discussion, the BGB release added.
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