NEW DELHI: India has agreed to consider offering trade concessions to Bangladesh to help plug a gaping trade imbalance the neighboring countries pledged to try to settle dispute over water from the Ganges River which flows from India into Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. Sobhan said the two sides had agreed to try to reach a permanent agreement on how to share the Ganges water. Sobhan said his side had taken note of an Indian request for an agreement to facilitate transit of Indian goods through Bangladesh, which geographically virtually cuts off India’s north eastern states from the rest of the country.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 21, 1996
