“We have now to resolve this challenge in accordance with worldwide norms,” he stated (File)
Dhaka:
Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has stated the interim authorities would pursue with India methods to resolve the variations over the long-pending Teesta water sharing treaty, as delaying it for years serves no function for both nation.
In an interview with PTI at his official residence in Dhaka, Muhammad Yunus said that the water-sharing challenge between the 2 international locations have to be resolved in accordance with worldwide norms, emphasising that decrease riparian international locations like Bangladesh have particular rights that they search to uphold.
“By sitting over this challenge (water sharing), it’s not serving any function. If I understand how a lot water I’ll get, even when I’m not completely happy and signal it, it could be higher. This challenge needs to be resolved,” he stated.
Replying to a question on whether or not the interim authorities would push for resolving the problems over the Teesta water-sharing treaty on the earliest, he stated the brand new regime will pursue it.
“Push is an enormous phrase; I’m not saying it. We are going to pursue it. However now we have to sit down collectively and resolve it,” he advised PTI.
India and Bangladesh had been set to signal a deal on Teesta water sharing throughout then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s go to to Dhaka in 2011, however West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declined to endorse it, citing a shortage of water in her state.
“This isn’t a brand new challenge however a really previous challenge. We have now spoken on this challenge on a number of events. The discussions started through the interval of Pakistan’s rule. Whereas all of us wished this treaty to be finalised, even the Indian authorities was prepared for it. Nonetheless, the state authorities of West Bengal was not prepared for it. We have to resolve it,” he stated.
Muhammad Yunus reiterated that decrease riparian international locations like Bangladesh have particular rights that they search to uphold.
“We have now to resolve this challenge in accordance with worldwide norms. The decrease riparian international locations have sure rights, and we would like these rights,” he stated.
His remarks come days after the interim authorities’s Adviser on Water Assets, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, advised PTI that Dhaka would push for restarting the dialogue relating to the Teesta water-sharing treaty with New Delhi and asserted that each international locations ought to adhere to worldwide ideas relating to water-sharing between higher riparian and decrease riparian international locations.
Talking in regards to the flood scenario in Bangladesh and experiences from Dhaka blaming India for the floods, Muhammad Yunus stated that till the treaty is signed, a humanitarian method will be adopted to cope with such crises.
“When the Excessive Commissioner (of India) got here to satisfy me, I stated that we will work on higher administration to see how the scenario will be managed through the floods. For such coordination between two international locations, we do not want any treaty.” “We are able to work on this collectively on humanitarian grounds and resolve this, as this can ease the struggling of the lots. Such humanitarian steps would actually assist,” he stated.
Monsoon rainfall-triggered floods in deltaic Bangladesh and upstream Indian areas have killed a number of individuals and marooned or affected almost three million others in Bangladesh, posing an enormous administrative problem to the newly put in interim authorities amid a political transition.
India has described as factually incorrect the experiences from Bangladesh that the present flood scenario in sure elements of the nation has been attributable to the opening of a dam on the Gumti River in Tripura.
The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi said that floods within the shared rivers between the 2 international locations are a “shared” downside affecting individuals on either side and require shut mutual cooperation to resolve.
Talking in regards to the contentious challenge of border killings, Muhammad Yunus condemned it and stated killing shouldn’t be an answer to coping with it.
The Border Safety Power (BSF) of India has accused Bangladeshi smugglers and infiltrators of crossing over the border and attacking Indian forces when challenged.
They’ve raised the problem with the Bangladesh counterpart BGB on a number of events. West Bengal shares a complete of two,217 kilometres of its border with Bangladesh, together with Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Assam (262 km), and Mizoram (318 km).
Deaths at occasions happen alongside the Bangladesh-India border attributable to alleged infiltrators making an attempt to cross into India illegally, cross-border firing, and cattle smuggling.
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