DHAKA: Director General level meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar has started from Tuesday. 

The three-day long meeting started at Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw in the morning which will continue till Thursday.

Bangladesh is likely to give an agreement proposal to Myanmar about Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP) to reduce dispute and tension in the frontier line of the two countries.  

If Myanmar shows interest and give response about the CBMP then Bangladesh will give a draft proposal on it.     

BGB Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed and BGP Director General Major General Zaw Win are leading the delegation on behalf of the respective country.   

On June 12, the last day of the meeting Joint Record of Discussions (JRD) will be inked.   

Other issues of the conference are to stopping of the smuggling drugs, stopping of firing among the border forces, introduce joint patrolling system and also increase confidence among the forces of both the countries. 

On May 28, BGB member Nayek Md Mizanur Rahman, hailed from Velanagar village under Mohanpur union of Comilla was killed by the Myanmar border police at Naikkhangchari frontier of Bandarban district.

Since then, tension mounting among the BGB and BGP in the border area.

BDST: 1810 HRS, JUN 10, 2014