BGB-BSF talks will be held from December 22 to 26 in Guwahati
Dhaka, Dec 21 (UNI) The 51st round of director general (DG) level talks (DGLT) between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) will be held from 22 to 26 December in India’s Guwahati.
BGB DG major general Md Shafeenul Islam will lead an 11-member Bangladesh delegation while his BSF counterpart Rakesh Asthana will lead a 12-member delegation at the routine boarder conference, said a BGB press release today.
Concerned officials from prime minister’s office (PMO), home ministry, foreign ministry and senior BGB officials will represent the Bangladesh delegation in the conference while senior officials of BSF headquarters, frontier IGs and concerned officials of the Indian home ministry and external affairs ministry will represent the BSF delegation.
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New Delhi [India], December 20 (ANI): The 51st Director-General level border coordination conference between Border Security Force (India) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will be organised from December 22 to December 26, said an official press release on Sunday.
During this conference, the BSF delegation led by Rakesh Asthana, Director General, BSF will hold talks with the BGB delegation headed by Major General Md Shafeenul Islam, BGBM (BAR), NDC, PSC, Director General, BGB.
The release stated, The aim of the Director-General talks is to discuss border-related issues, and to enable better coordination between both border guarding forces.
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The 51st director general-level border coordination conference between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will be held in Guwahati from December 22 to 26, an official statement said. This is for the first time in four decades that the biannual conference will be held outside Delhi. The BSF delegation will be led by Director General Rakesh Asthana while the BGB delegation will headed by the force s chief Major General Md Shafeenul Islam. The conference will focus on addressing and streamlining mechanisms on how to jointly curb various trans-border crimes and timely sharing of information between both the border guarding forces, an official statement said.
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21 December, 2020 12:00 AM
The five-day director general-level border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India will begin in Guwahati of the neighbouring country tomorrow (Tuesday).
BGB Director General (DG) Major General Md Shafeenul Islam will lead an 11-member Bangladesh delegation while BSF DG Rakesh Asthana a 12-man Indian side at the 51st conference.
The Bangladesh delegation also includes representatives from the Prime Minister’s Office, and Home and Foreign Affairs ministries.
Different issues, including firing at unarmed Bangladeshi citizens and shooting them to death along the border, smuggling of drugs, information-sharing about drug factories inside India as well as drug peddlers, smuggling of arms and ammunition, illegal trespassing along the international border, development work within 150 yards of the bo