About JEC meeting
I want to draw the attention of the government to the fact that whenever we discuss about bilateral trade with India they bring the transhipment and transit issues on the table. From my common sense, I understand that transhipment and transit are issues completely different from trade. Our representative should strongly defend that point and could only agree to discuss such things in the regional, not bilateral context. We should also emphasise that our land is very small, so in case of any future deal we can ask for land compensation of twenty times than used for that purpose as India is at least twenty times larger (I am not sure) than Bangladesh.
I hope India will agree and at the same time it will stop manipulating the river water flow that erode our soil on the banks of the rivers in bordering areas.
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