Date:27/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/03/27/stories/2006032700680800.htm

Back Indo-Dhaka ties

This has reference to your editorial "Neighbourly realities" (Business Line, March 25). The recent visit of the Bangladesh Prime Minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, should be regarded as a good beginning.

The Bangladeshi Prime Minister should, in fact, be happy with the agreements signed to boost trade and economic ties and for jointly combating drug-trafficking and abuse.

But the main concerns of India — the right to transit goods through its territory to India's North-Eastern states, the closure of the terrorist camps operating against India, illegal immigration etc — remain unaddressed. India has to continue the dialogue to solve these problems.

A. Jacob Sahayam

Thiruvananthapuram

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