Narinjara News
Burmese Foreign
Minister meets his counterpart in Dhaka
Dhaka, 3rd March
03: Bangladesh and Burma yesterday agreed to work out details on the
proposed road link and a coastal shipping arrangement, according to the local
press and news agencies in Dhaka.
The Burmese Foreign Minister U Win Aung had a discussion with his Bangladeshi
counterpart, M Morshed Khan in an hour-long meeting, ‘held in an extremely
cordial and friendly atmosphere’ as reported by BSS, the government news
service decided on setting up a joint commission at foreign ministers
level, which would meet annually. Matters of bilateral issues and
economic cooperation dominated the talks, Foreign Secretary told newsmen.
The setting up of a joint commission at foreign ministers level is expected be
finalised during the Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s visit to
The Burmese foreign minister handed over a letter of invitation to the Prime
Minister from Than Shwe, the chairman of the
On repatriation of the remaining nearly twenty thousand Burmese refugees in the
squalid camps in the south-east of the country, the foreign secretary said
that, the Burmese foreign minister gave full assurance of taking them beck
‘following verifications’. He also added that there were more than
quarter million Burmese refugees before, but now less than one tenth of the
original is left, which would be resolved sooner rather than later. But
the present rate of repatriation of the refugees is so slow that only a couple
of families are being repatriated every Wednesday, according to our border
correspondent who quoted some of the residents there, which if continued will
take a very long time,
Both sides expressed optimism that the visit of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia
would further strengthen the sense of goodwill that the Burmese junta chief
generated on his trip to Dhaka last December.
The Burmese side also assured of their full support regarding the inclusion of