UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh and Myanmar at a meeting here on Wednesday agreed to share both operational and technical information to prevent the abuse of narcotics and drug trafficking through the borders of the two neighbouring nations.
“Bangladesh and Myanmar at a bilateral meeting have reached an agreement on 10 issues, including sharing both the operational and technical information, to check drug abuse and smuggling through the respective borders,” said DG of the Department of Narcotics Control Bazlur Rahman.
He made the remarks while briefing reporters at his office about the outcome of the bilateral meeting between the delegations of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The two-day second bilateral meeting on abuse of narcotics and drug trafficking that began at a city hotel on Tuesday concluded yesterday afternoon.
Bazlur Rahman led the 15-member home side to the meeting while Brigadier General Kyaw Win, Joint Secretary of CCDAC-cum-Commander of Drug Enforcement Division of Myanmar led his country’s four-member delegation.
Bazlur said the two countries also decided to identify the sources and routes of drug smuggling and the gangs involved in it through the two country’s borders and take necessary actions against them.
He said both the countries specially angered to intensify monitoring on both sides of the border the two nations to check Yaba production. Both sides also decided to continue the effective activities to stop poppy and hemp cultivation in the border areas.
The both nations also agreed to modernise and develop the border management system and worked out strategies to intensify search operations in the vessels that ply the Naf River and costal areas adjacent to the borders of the countries to stop drug trafficking.
Bazlur said a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed between the two countries in December 1, 1994 to prevent drug smuggling.
As per the agreement, the first bilateral meeting on abuse of narcotics and drug trafficking was held in Myanmar on November 15-16, 2011.
Though the second meeting was held after four years of lapse, the two sides decided to hold similar meeting every year from now on.
Bangladesh and Myanmar at a meeting here on Wednesday agreed to share both operational and technical information to prevent the abuse of narcotics and drug trafficking through the borders of the two neighbouring nations.
“Bangladesh and Myanmar at a bilateral meeting have reached an agreement on 10 issues, including sharing both the operational and technical information, to check drug abuse and smuggling through the respective borders,” said DG of the Department of Narcotics Control Bazlur Rahman.
He made the remarks while briefing reporters at his office about the outcome of the bilateral meeting between the delegations of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The two-day second bilateral meeting on abuse of narcotics and drug trafficking that began at a city hotel on Tuesday concluded yesterday afternoon.
Bazlur Rahman led the 15-member home side to the meeting while Brigadier General Kyaw Win, Joint Secretary of CCDAC-cum-Commander of Drug Enforcement Division of Myanmar led his country’s four-member delegation.
Bazlur said the two countries also decided to identify the sources and routes of drug smuggling and the gangs involved in it through the two country’s borders and take necessary actions against them.
He said both the countries specially angered to intensify monitoring on both sides of the border the two nations to check Yaba production. Both sides also decided to continue the effective activities to stop poppy and hemp cultivation in the border areas.
The both nations also agreed to modernise and develop the border management system and worked out strategies to intensify search operations in the vessels that ply the Naf River and costal areas adjacent to the borders of the countries to stop drug trafficking.
Bazlur said a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed between the two countries in December 1, 1994 to prevent drug smuggling.
As per the agreement, the first bilateral meeting on abuse of narcotics and drug trafficking was held in Myanmar on November 15-16, 2011.
Though the second meeting was held after four years of lapse, the two sides decided to hold similar meeting every year from now on.
