Hasina to visit India on Dec 18; anti-terror pact on cards

Anisur Rahman
Dhaka, Nov 15 (PTI) Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina will
pay a three-day visit to India from December 18, during which
the two countries are expected to ink three agreements,
including one on combating terrorism and organised crime.

Hasina, who will be in New Delhi on her first visit since
assuming office this year, is scheduled to meet India Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh on December 19, state-run news agency
BSS said quoting officials.
It said she would directly fly to New Delhi on December
18 after attending the climate change summit in Copenhagen.
Foreign secretaries of the two sides met here yesterday
to review bilateral issues ahead of the visit and "looked into
progress on the understanding reached during Foreign Minister
Dipu Moni's visit to India in September last," officials said.
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Menon Rao told newsmen
she had come here in the "context of preparations for a very
significant visit of the Bangladesh premier" to India.
Later at a regular press briefing the Bangladesh foreign
secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes said the priority issues his
country would table at the summit would be sharing of water in
common rivers, particularly Teesta, power import, connectivity
with Nepal and Bhutan and other border issues.
Quayes said the two countries were expected to ink three
agreements -- on mutual legal assistance on criminal matters,
transfer of sentenced persons and combating international
terrorism, organised crime and illegal drug trafficking.(MORE)
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