4-Day BGB-BSF Border Conference Starts Sunday

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On Sunday (11 June), the Border Security Force (BSF) of India and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will hold a four-day border meeting in New Delhi, reports ETV Bharat.

A delegation of BGB arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for the 53rd Directorate General level border coordination conference with the BSF.

"The 53rd Director General level border co-ordination conference between BSF and BGB will be organised by BSF at BSF Camp Chhawla in New Delhi from 11 to 14," a BSF spokesperson said.

According to the report, the BSF delegation will be led by Director General Dr Sujoy Lal Thaosen, while the BGB delegation will be headed by Maj Gen AKM Nazmul Hasan, director general, BGB.

The objective is to put a check on various trans-border crimes and timely sharing of information.

"During the course of the conference, discussions will be held on how to jointly curb the various trans-border crimes and timely sharing of information between both the Border Guarding Forces," The spokesperson said.

"Furthermore, there will be deliberations on developmental and infrastructural works, joint efforts for effective implementation of Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP) and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs)."

The last BSF-BGB border coordination conference was held from 17 to 21 July, 2022 in Dhaka, according to BSF tweet.

The Joint Bangladesh-India guidelines for Border Authorities - 1975 envisage that there should be frequent contact between the border authorities of the two concerned countries to discuss matters of immediate administrative concern, BSF stated in a tweet, reports ANI.

An Indian delegation under the leadership of the former Director General of BSF Ashwani Kumar and the Bangladesh delegation under the leadership of Major General Quazi Golam Dastgir, former Director General, BDR (now BGB) held a meeting in Kolkata in December 1975 for the first time to discuss mutual border problems.

Since then, the meetings between direcotrs general of BGB and BSF have been held annually alternatively in India and Bangladesh till 1993. During discussions in Dhaka from 7 to 9 October, 1993, the home secretaries of India and Bangladesh agreed that the director general level meetings between BSF and BGB were to be a bi-annual event.

The BSF in the tweet further stated, “In the agreed summary of discussions during the said meeting, it was emphasised that problems in the areas of mutual interests and concerns could be progressively resolved through close contacts and continuing meaningful dialogue at various levels. Accordingly, DG BSF and DG BGB have been holding Border Coordination meetings twice a year alternatively at Delhi and Dhaka and joint record of discussions of these meetings are forwarded to Ministry of Home Affairs after each such meeting.”

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