Bangladesh Delegation Leaves to Attend Meeting in Burma
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Dhaka: A six-member delegation headed by the Director General of the BDR, Major General Mainul Islam left for Burma on Saturday to attend the four-day director general level meeting there, according to Bangladesh official sources.
The meeting is scheduled to begin in Yangon, the former capital of Burma, on 10 January, sources said.
According to an official Bangladesh source, Bangladesh will call upon the Burmese military government to stop military concentration and manoeuvres in the border belt of the two neighbouring countries, with a view to warding off tension in future.
Bangladesh will place the appeal at a high-level four-day director general level meeting between the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Nasaka, the border security force of Burma.
In the meeting, Burma's Nasaka Colonel Aung Gyi will lead the Burma delegation.
At the meeting, the Bangladesh delegation is expected to request their counterpart to stop trans-border crimes, military concentration and manoeuvres in the border areas, start development works and confidence-building measures in the border areas, stop push-in of Rohingyas, and smuggling of arms and drugs and other contraband items into Bangladesh from Burma through border points.
The BDR chief is also expected to prevail upon the Burmese authority to resolve the problems of Bangladeshi fishermen in the Naff River and in the Bay of Bengal.
Bangladesh will request Burmese authorities to take back the Burmese nationals who were arrested by the Bangladesh law enforcers while intruding into the country, and those who have completed their prison terms in different jails after being charged with various criminal offences, the official said.
Major General Mainul Islam will also meet General Maung Oo, the home minister of Burma, during his trip to Burma, for discussing various bilateral issues, especially security issues.
The Bangladesh delegation will also visit many places including the immigration headquarters, headquarters of of Nasaka in Maungdaw, Arakan State's capital Sittwe, and Paletwa area in southern Chin State.
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