Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has floated the idea of a Basin regime in the South Asian region based on a principle of a shared future, not a future of division.
She placed the idea in a lecture on the Bangladesh-India relationship at the 4th RK Mishra Memorial Lecture held in New Delhi Thursday.
Sharing of common resources of the two countries was underpinned by the principles of equity, fairness and no harm to each other, she said.
“A shared future Basin regime would recognise the divergent needs and priorities of each state on both the existing and emerging principles of international law,” she added.
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin regime would naturally include all other basin states, namely Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar and in the upper reaches, China, as well as the Bay of Bengal itself, the minister said.
Dipu Moni is scheduled to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and BJP leader Arun Jaitley today, a foreign ministry official has said.
Teesta water sharing, ratification of Land Boundary Agreement (LBA), border killings and Tipaimukh dam project are the major issues that would be discussed, the official said.
