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<text>
<title>
Bangladesh Foreign Minister's Remarks
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Joint Publications Research Service, June 19, 1991
Paper Reports Water Sharing Talks with India: Foreign
Minister's Remarks
</hdr>
<body>
<p>[Dhaka, The Bangladesh Observer in English, 25 Apr 91, pp 1, 8]
</p>
<p> The Tin Bigha Corridor will be handed over to Bangladesh in
the near future. Foreign Minister A.S.M. Mustafizur Rahman told
the Jatiya Sangsad Wednesday, says BSS.
</p>
<p> Replying to a question from Salahuddin Yusuf (AL-Khulna),
the Minister said the Indian government had assured Bangladesh
that it would be handed over in the near future.
</p>
<p> He said Bangladesh was to get a permanent lease of the Tin
Bigha Corridor under an agreement signed between the two
countries in October 1982 to maintain communications between
the two enclaves--Angorpota and Dahagram--with the mainland
of Bangladesh.
</p>
<p> He said later the Indian government informed Bangladesh that
the implementation of the agreement was being delayed as
several writ petitions had been filed in the Calcutta High Court
by the citizens of these areas.
</p>
<p> The Foreign Minister said the Supreme Court of India gave a
verdict on 5 May 1990 stating that there was no constitutional
bar in handing over the corridor to Bangladesh and opined that
it should be handed over immediately to further develop
bilateral relations.
</p>
<p> He said the Indian authorities had taken necessary
administrative steps to hand over the corridor. He said the
Indian government had assured us that it would be handed over in
the near future, the two countries are maintaining contact in
this regard, he added.
</p>
<p> Replying to another question from Haji Rashed Mosharraf (AL-
Jamalpur), the Foreign Minister said Bangladesh and India had a
25-year bilateral agreement called "friendship" cooperation and
peace agreement, he said the agreement was signed on 19 March
1972.
</p>
<p> Asked whether the present government would terminate the
agreement, the Minister said, if you (opposition) want
everything can be done.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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