From: sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Saif Ahmed)
Subject: Bangladesh, India relationship.
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:26:05 GMT
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                    The Xinhua General Overseas News Service

                           NOVEMBER 22, 1992, SUNDAY


HEADLINE: bangladesh, india agree to stop border incidents

   senior border guards officials of bangladesh and india in a flag
meeting have agreed to take measures to stop any incident on the
frontier in future and a number of decisions have also been taken in
this regard.  the flag meeting was held at burimari post under
bangladesh lalmonirhat district saturday to discuss the recent "minor
incidents" along the northeastern frontier, sources from the
bangladesh rifles (bdr) were quoted by state-run news agency bss as
saying today.  in recent weeks, there have been reports of the indian
border guards' trying to send forcibly bengali-speaking people into
bangladesh along the frontier under the "operation pushback" which was
allegedly aimed at deporting illegal bangladeshi immigrants.  however,
during the flag meeting, indian officials denied having attempted
"pushing back" any people during this period and assured of never
making such attempts.

                       Copyright 1992 Reuters, Limited
                           The Reuter Library Report

HEADLINE: INDIAN SOLDIERS KILL BANGLADESHI BORDER GUARD

DATELINE: DHAKA, Nov 21

   Indian Border Security Force troops shot dead a Bangladeshi guard
in an exchange of fire on Friday, police said on Saturday.

   They said Havildar Sudhir Kumar of the Bangladesh Rifles died
during a shootout near a frontier post in Bangladesh's southeastern
Comilla district, bordering India's Tripura state.

   Villagers told reporters a group of Indian soldiers chasing
smugglers entered the Bibirbazar area in Comilla but were challenged
by the riflemen.

   Riflemen said they had asked for a meeting with the Indian troops
to discuss the incident.

HEADLINE: indo-bangladeshi talks on sharing river waters end

DATELINE: new delhi, november 21; ITEM NO: 1121070

   the two-day first round of experts-level talks on sharing of river
waters between india and bangladesh ended here late friday without
making much progress.  the two sides agreed to continue the talks in
the second meeting of the joint committee of experts to be held
shortly in dhaka, according to official sources.  the just-concluded
meeting was devoted primarily to the long-pending issue of sharing the
flows of ganga, tista, brahmaputra and barak rivers.  the committee
headed by the irrigation secretaries of the two countries was formed
during the visit of the indian water resources minister v.c. shukla to
dhaka last august.  the committee's task is to evolve an equitable,
long-term and comprehensive arrangement for sharing river flows of a
number of rivers, particularly the ganga.  this meeting is also a
follow-up of bangladeshi prime minister khaleda zia's visit here last
may during which the issue was discussed with her indian counterpart
p.v.  narasimha rao.

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| | Saifuddin Ahmed                                                        |
| | sahmed@occs.cs.oberlin.edu                                             |
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