Comments on recently concluded treaties and MOUs between Bangladesh and India

Ref: http://www.e-bangladesh.org/2010/01/12/achievements-of-pm-sheikh-hasina-from-her-india-trip/#more-2167

Thanks to both Kh. Abdus Saleque Sufi and Sushanta Das Gupta for summarizing in the e-Bangladesh Prime Minister Sk. Hasina'a recently concluded trip to India. Their write-up apparently provides a complete picture of what truly happened between the leaders of two neighbors who had their shares of ups and downs in relationships. The trip was a keenly observed event for many - those who wanted to see a positive outcome thus cementing years of mistrust and also those who wanted nothing more than a failure to emerge so that such could be made an issue towards unseating the government.

As I stated in my last article - on a mock memo to PM Manmohan Singh, if I were the PM of Bangladesh, there are many thorny issues that really need more than a simple wound-dressing. Water-share from the common rivers remains the most troublesome issue. I am reminded by newspaper reports that India has not lived up to the treaty obligations of 1996. If true, it is really sad, and thus puts into question the very achievements in this latest treaties and MOUs that Sk. Hasina has signed with Singh. I, therefore, agree with the cautionary concluding remarks of the authors that "If two governments remain honest and committed there is nothing which can barrier the building the bridges of good healthy neighborly relation for the greater interest of the great people of the region. Days will come soon when barbed-wire fencing will be removed and people will move like free singing birds across."

Let's hope that both parties are honest and such dreams turn into reality so that as a result of good friendship both our peoples gain from these treaties and MOUs and live peacefully and happily without the fear of hegemony, subordination, war and conflict. Only time would tell us how correct or incorrect we were in our wishful dreams.

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