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Bangladesh nixes India's renewed transit proposal
Bangladesh has apparently dumped Delhi's renewed proposal for transit allowing it to transport goods to and from India's isolated north-eastern states through its territory.
- By Anisur Rahman, Correspondent
- Published: 00:08 July 14, 2008
Dhaka: Bangladesh has apparently dumped Delhi's renewed proposal for transit allowing it to transport goods to and from India's isolated north-eastern states through its territory.
"I wish to announce unequivocally and firmly that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh will never, under no circumstances, agree to any arrangement that is contrary to our sovereign national interest," foreign adviser of the interim government Iftikhar Ahmad Chowdhury said on Saturday.
Chowdhury's comments came days after India renewed its call for transit this time asking Dhaka to sign a five-year transit agreement as the foreign secretaries of the two countries were set to hold their routine two-day annual consultation in New Delhi on July 17-18.
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