“We have now to resolve this situation in response to worldwide norms,” he mentioned (File)

Dhaka:

Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has mentioned 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 acknowledged that the water-sharing situation between the 2 nations should be resolved in response to worldwide norms, emphasising that decrease riparian nations like Bangladesh have particular rights that they search to uphold.

“By sitting over this situation (water sharing), it isn’t 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 situation needs to be resolved,” he mentioned.

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 mentioned the brand new regime will pursue it.

“Push is a giant phrase; I’m not saying it. We’ll pursue it. However now we have to take a seat collectively and resolve it,” he instructed 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 situation however a really previous situation. We have now spoken on this situation on a number of events. The discussions started in the course of the interval of Pakistan’s rule. Whereas all of us needed this treaty to be finalised, even the Indian authorities was prepared for it. Nevertheless, the state authorities of West Bengal was not prepared for it. We have to resolve it,” he mentioned.

Muhammad Yunus reiterated that decrease riparian nations like Bangladesh have particular rights that they search to uphold.

“We have now to resolve this situation in response to worldwide norms. The decrease riparian nations have sure rights, and we wish these rights,” he mentioned.

His remarks come days after the interim authorities’s Adviser on Water Sources, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, instructed PTI that Dhaka would push for restarting the dialogue relating to the Teesta water-sharing treaty with New Delhi and asserted that each nations ought to adhere to worldwide ideas relating to water-sharing between higher riparian and decrease riparian nations.

Talking concerning the flood scenario in Bangladesh and experiences from Dhaka blaming India for the floods, Muhammad Yunus mentioned that till the treaty is signed, a humanitarian method will be adopted to take care of such crises.

“When the Excessive Commissioner (of India) got here to satisfy me, I mentioned that we will work on higher administration to see how the scenario will be managed in the course of the floods. For such coordination between two nations, 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 mentioned.

Monsoon rainfall-triggered floods in deltaic Bangladesh and upstream Indian areas have killed a number of folks and marooned or affected practically 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 components of the nation has been brought on by the opening of a dam on the Gumti River in Tripura.

The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi acknowledged that floods within the shared rivers between the 2 nations are a “shared” drawback affecting folks on each side and require shut mutual cooperation to resolve.

Talking concerning the contentious situation of border killings, Muhammad Yunus condemned it and mentioned killing isn’t an answer to coping with it.

The Border Safety Drive (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 because of alleged infiltrators making an attempt to cross into India illegally, cross-border firing, and cattle smuggling.

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