The delegation level talks between BSF and BGB as part of the six day Director General level conference was held in Dhaka on Monday. BSF Director General Raman Srivastava led the twenty one member delegation during the talks at the BGB headquarters with the twenty three member Border Guard Bangladesh delegation led by its Director General Major General Anwar Hussain.

Apart from focusing on ways to strengthen co-operation in border security and management, the BSF delegation raised issues related to the presence of Insurgent Groups, deportation of leaders and handing over of Indian criminals during the talks with BGB.

In addition to this, the talks focussed on joint efforts by the BSF and BGB to prevent smuggling of Fake Indian Counterfeit Notes, Illegal Migration and trafficking of Women and Children. The present round of the Director General level conference between the Border Security force and Border Guards Bangladesh is the 34th Director General level meeting between the two forces and is part of the bi-annual conferences held alternately in New Delhi and Dhaka every year.

The Director General level conference between the BSF and BGB is the first high level meeting taking place between India and Bangladesh barely two weeks after the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Dhaka. Co-operation in security issues was one of the key features of the Framework agreement signed by the Prime Ministers of the two countries during this visit.

In the joint statement issued at the end of the visit, the two Prime Ministers not only reiterated their resolve to work together to combat terrorism and insurgency but also directed that steps be taken to implement the Coordinated Border Management Plan immediately. The six day conference of BSF and BGB will review the progress made on implementing this plan which aims to control border crimes related to insurgency, militancy, terrorism and other illegal criminal activities at identified vulnerable areas of the 4096 kilometre border shared by the two countries.