Army Chief Gen M M Naravane has said that India was conscious of Bangladesh's efforts to deny space to terror groups that are carrying out subversive activities against India.
In a message played out during an event here on Wednesday to mark 50 years of India-bangladesh ties, he also asserted that “the historic Land Boundary Agreement” (LBA) between the two countries has shown how an issue related to border can be “resolved with mutual negotiations and a constructive outlook”.
This, at a time when “certain countries” have been trying to “alter the status quo by force, and bypassing traditional rules and protocols, with complete disregard to territorial integrity of others,” Naravane said, without naming any country.
The LBA epitomises the 3Ms — “mutual respect, mutual trust and mutual commitment — to a rules-based order”, the Indian Army chief said, and asserted that the two countries share an important strategic space in the Indian subcontinent with a land boundary spanning over 4,000 km.
Marking a new high in bilateral ties, India and bangladesh in 2015 had sealed a historic deal to settle the old land boundary dispute through exchange of territories, removing a major irritant in bilateral ties.
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to Dhaka in 2015, the two sides had swapped documents regarding the LBA that paved the way for the operationalisation of the pact signed in 1974 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and…
