KALADAN NEWS

Dated: Friday, January 16, 2004

Planned Road Link Promises Closer Ties Between Burma-Bangladesh: PM Tells Burma Envoy

Chittagong, Jan-16: The planned road link between the two neighbors would bring closer as well as the other countries of the region, said the Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, according to The Daily Star, Bangladesh.

She reconfirmed to the newly appointed Ambassador of Burma, U Thane Myint that the planned road link between Burma and Bangladesh would bring closer as also the other countries of the region, while the new envoy of Burma called on her at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday afternoon.

The Bangladesh Prime Minister has said Bangladesh and Burma can advantage from the geographical nearness and economic situation of the two countries.

The Prime Minister mentioned her last visit to Rangoon that has led in a new era in the correlation between the two neighbors.

The envoy stated the exchange of visits at the top level and said it has opened new opportunities of cooperation in trade and commerce.

Referring to the road link, the Burma envoy said the work is about to start.

Burma-Bangladesh friendship road will be started in coming winter for direct road link between Rangoon and Dhaka. Regarding this, a 25 km Taungbro-Bali Bazar Road in Burma and a proposed 91 km cross-border high way would be built from Ramu of Chittagong Division to Buthidaung in Arakan State at an estimated cost of about Taka 400 crore, said the Bangladesh Communication Minister Nazmul Huda on 22^nd December 2003. # #

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