Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told parliament that most of the provisions of Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Treaty were implemented.
“We have already implemented 48 clauses out of 72 clauses of the CHT Treaty and are working sincerely to implement the rest of the clauses,” she said replying to a query.
The premier also said 48 clauses have already been implemented fully and 15 clauses have been implemented partially and the nine are under implementation.
Hasina said that her government had taken different programmes, including in communication and education sectors, as part of implementation of the treaty signed on December 2, 1997.
She criticised the previous BNP-led alliance government for slowing down implementation process after the alliance came to power in 2001.
She said the government took all-out steps to implement the CHT Treaty after the surrender of arms by the Janasanghati Parishad and other groups on February 10, 1998.
“The Awami League government and the Janasanghati Samity signed the treaty through discussion and we did not involve any foreign force or others,” she said.
The prime minister said her government had treated the problem politically and observed that it was not possible to solve it militarily.
Hasina said 119 military camps out of the 232 have already been withdrawn and the rest to be pulled out in phases to implement Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Treaty.
“There is a plan to pull out army personnel in time through withdrawing the temporary camps after developing the infrastructure,” she said.