Indo-Bangladesh relationship
Bangladesh has been snubbed by India a number of times since independence. The latest rejection of the Bangladesh proposal to hold a JRC meeting to finalise an agreement on the sharing of Teesta river waters is another example of how India deals with Bangladesh. This agreement is pending since 2005. While India failed to comply with the requirements to finalise the Teesta water agreement, Bangladesh already finalised three agreements, namely: (1) Treaties on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, (2) Transfer of Prisoners and, (3) Bilateral Agreement on Combating International Terrorism.
Unless India realises that international relationship depends on mutual respect, there is very little Bangladesh can do to improve the ties between the two neighbours.
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