Bangladesh might not sign the 'letter of exchange' regarding transit for India as the Indian government has postponed the Teesta water sharing deal at the last moment.
The letter of exchange regarding providing India with transit facilities under the protocol signed in 1980 was finalised earlier after a series of discussion with the Indian counterparts and was due to be signed on Tuesday, a highly placed source at the Bangladesh foreign ministry said.
Meanwhile, Indian National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon on Tuesday confirmed Indian journalists who are accompanying their premier in Dhaka that the proposed Teesta water sharing deal is not going to be signed during this visit.
There is no meaning of signing a treaty which will not bring any result or which will be hard to implement, Menon told the Indian journalists at a hotel on Tuesday, said one of the journalists.
When he was quizzed about Bangladesh's disappointment about postponing the Teesta deal, he however said, India will sign the deal as quickly as possible.
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