Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (BBN) – Bangladesh has urged Burma for taking necessary measures to close yaba factories in its border areas immediately to prevent smuggling of drugs into Bangladesh.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) officials raised the demand at a flag meeting with their Burmese counterparts at a hotel in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday.
Col Md Bashirul Islam, Chittagong sector commander of BGB, headed a 15-member delegation at the meeting while Col U Aung Gyi, director of Border Immigration Headquarters, led the 17-member team of Burma, officially known as Myanmar.
The BGB delegation also presented the Nasaka officials with a statistics on the yaba and other drugs seized during the last five months and a list of yaba factories set up in the Burma territory near the Bangladesh border
Officials of Nasaka, the border security force of Burma, assured the BGB of actively considering the matter and would inform the BGB about their further action very soon.
BBN/SSR/AD-01April12-12:30 pm (BST)
