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Possibility of signing several MoUs
On Thursday there will be a virtual meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Several memorandums of understanding between the two countries are likely to be signed at this meeting. Foreign Minister. AK Abdul Momen told Ittefaq: “It is possible that some memorandums of understanding will be signed in various sectors during the virtual meeting between the two prime ministers. However, nothing has been finalized yet. Officials are still working on the matter. Earlier, ministry officials said that four MOUs could be signed at the meeting.
During this virtual meeting between the two Prime Ministers, the pre-1985 Chilahati-Haldibari rail link between Bangladesh and India will be reopened after 55 years. It was closed in 1965 during the Indo-Pakistani war.
Foreign Minister Momen said the meeting will address all major bilateral issues, including the Dhaka water exchange, cooperative cooperation, border killings, the trade deficit, communications, electricity and the Rohingya crisis. . The foreign minister indicated that the issue of sharing water from the same river that flows between the two countries will be a priority at the next meeting. Dhaka will propose to bring together the theme of water exchange between the two main rivers Manu, Muhuri, Gomti, Dharla, Dudhkumar, Feni and Teesta in a single framework. He said Bangladesh will soon propose, if possible, to convene a meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) at ministerial level next month to build a framework to solve the problem of sharing the water in these seven rivers.
The foreign minister said that the Surma-Kushiyara project would also be one of the agendas of the ITC meeting. The last ITC meeting was held in New Delhi in 2010, ten years ago. In response to a question about Teesta’s pending deal, the minister said that the deal had been finalized a long time ago. Even India has signed every page of the agreement. Noting that Delhi has repeatedly committed to implementing the agreement over the past few years, he said the final agreement has been completed. Now I just wait for the implementation.
The two Prime Ministers will inaugurate the Chilahati railway service : Domar (Nilphamari) Correspondent Md. Mozaffar Ali said that after 55 years, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will inaugurate train service on the Chilahati and Haldibari in Nilphamari. The Prime Ministers of the two countries will re-inaugurate the train service through this railway via videoconference at 11:30 am. A train with 32 freight bogies will leave Chilahati station for Haldibari station in India for the first time. All preparations for the train have already been completed.
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