Amid fencing row, border security chiefs of India, Bangladesh to meet on Feb 17-20

“The Director General-level talks betwixt the BSF and BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh)  are scheduled from February 17 to 20, 2025 successful New Delhi during which border-related issues are projected to beryllium discussed,” Randhir Jaiswal, authoritative spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said Friday.

“We expect each mutually agreed MoUs and agreements to beryllium honoured. These signifier the ground for structured engagements betwixt borderline guarding forces and facilitate instauration of mutually beneficial information and commercialized infrastructure on the border,” helium said.

On January 12 — hours aft Dhaka alleged that India was trying to conception fences astatine 5 locations on Indo-Bangla border, violating a bilateral agreement, Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md. Jashim Uddin summoned Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma and “expressed heavy concern” implicit the “recent activities on the Bangladesh-India” border.

According to Bangladesh government, Jashim Uddin had stressed that specified activities, peculiarly “unauthorised attempt” to conception barbed ligament fencing and related operational actions by BSF, person caused tensions and disturbances on the border.

After the meet, Verma had said, “I conscionable met the Foreign Secretary to sermon India’s committedness to ensuring a crime-free border, efficaciously addressing challenges of smuggling, question of criminals and trafficking.” “We person an knowing with respect to fencing borderline for security. BSF  and BGB person been successful connection successful this regard. We expect that understandings volition beryllium implemented and determination volition beryllium a cooperative attack to combating crime,” Verma had said.

A time later, New Delhi summoned Bangladesh Acting High Commissioner to India Nural Islam implicit “security measures astatine the border, including connected fencing”. An authoritative connection from MEA had said that it was conveyed that with respect to “security measures astatine the border, including connected fencing, India observed each protocols and agreements betwixt the 2 governments and betwixt the BSF and BGB”.