The Hindu : Teesta talks inconclusive

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Monday, Jan 26, 2004

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Teesta talks inconclusive

By Haroon Habib

DHAKA, JAN. 25. The sixth meeting of the India-Bangladesh joint committee of experts has ended inconclusively. The experts differed over a number of technical aspects on sharing of the Teesta waters.

"As we agreed on some points and differed on some others, we finally decided to form a joint technical group to make recommendations on the terms of reference of an interim agreement on sharing of the Teesta waters," the Bangladesh Water Resources Secretary, Ayub Quadri, told presspersons in New Delhi. The secretary who led the home team, said Bangladesh had proposed 10 per cent of the Teesta waters to be kept for natural flow, 39 per cent for India, 36 per cent for Bangladesh and the rest distributed proportionately."

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