India and Bangladesh are set to hold their 51st Director General-level border talks in Guwahati from Tuesday.
The 51st edition of these high-level border talks which will commence from December 22 will be held between the Border Security Force (BSF) and its counterpart Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). The meet will be held in Guwahati for four days.
This is the first time in four decades that the biannual meeting between India and Bangladesh will be held outside Delhi.
The BSF delegation will be led by Director General Rakesh Asthana while the BGB delegation will be headed by the force”s chief Major General Md Shafeenul Islam.
The talks will mainly focus on discussions on curbing a variety of border crimes and enhancing cooperation between the two countries.
There will be deliberations on developmental and infrastructure works, joint efforts for effective implementation of Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP) and Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), an official statement said.
The last BSF–BGB conference was held from September 16 to 19 in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
The two forces, after the Dhaka talks in September, had decided to “share real-time information” with each other expeditiously through formal or informal channels regarding human trafficking, smuggling of narcotics, fake Indian currency notes, cattle, arms, ammunition, explosives, information related to anti-social elements, activities of IIGs (Indian Insurgent groups) and breach or damage of the border fence.
