Home Secretaries meet to discuss border security, comments

Описание: (3 Aug 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of news conference
2. Mid of Bangladeshi Home Secretary Mohammad Abdul Karim and Indian Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta signing agreement
3. Close up of signing
4. Wide of Karim and Gupta shaking hands
5. Cutaway photographers
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Madhukar Gupta, Indian Home Secretary :
"We have discussed various issues relating to our concerns and condemnation for any kind of terrorist and extremist activity which may take place in either of our countries. We have agreed that we would be mutually interacting and co-operate to see that this menace can be removed and curtailed and contained in the most effective manner. We have agreed also that we would institute a mechanism whereby there can be a continuous exchange of information between our own agencies."
7. Wide of conference
8. Mid of Bangladeshi delegation
9. SOUNDBITE (English): Mohammad Abdul Karim, Bangladeshi Home Secretary:
"While you are saying that lot of Indian insurgent groups are there, and we also discussed with His Excellency the Home Secretary about some Bangladeshi people staying here and how we can cooperate with each other for their return through legal process. And I think the details will be worked out through nodal point or at our level or at other levels through exchange of actionable information and through legal procedure existing in both the countries."
10. Zoom in from wide of the presser to Gupta and Karim getting up and shaking hands
STORYLINE:
India and Bangladesh agreed to step up cooperation to counter insurgent and extremist activities during the second day of two-day talks on security and border management in New Delhi on Friday.
The two countries share a twisting, porous, 4-thousand kilometre (2,500 mile) border across which human trafficking and smuggling in arms and narcotics is reported.
At a joint news conference following the talks, Indian Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta said the two countries had agreed "that we would be mutually interacting and co-operate to see that this menace can be removed and curtailed and contained in the most effective manner".
He said the new measures would aid the continuous exchange of information between the investigating agencies of the two countries.
The two sides agreed to initiate swift action on information received on groups or fugitives of either country taking shelter in the other country.
Bangladeshi Home Secretary Mohammad Abdul Karim said "we also discussed with His Excellency the Home Secretary about some Bangladeshi people staying here and how we can cooperate with each other for their return through legal process. And I think the details will be worked out through nodal point or at our level or at other levels through exchange of actionable information and through legal procedure existing in both the countries".
The eighth bilateral talks between the Home Secretaries of India and Bangladesh are part of an institutional mechanism set up in 1994 to manage security and border management issues.
The previous round of talks was held at Dhaka in late August last year.

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