Bangladesh Military prepares for a WAR against Myanmar

[third eye]

Those who have the capability to wage war do not talk .. Burma is obviously " testing ' the waters .

I am not sure if an EEZ is sovereign territory. There must be a mix up in the maps or its interpretation.

 

[Nihat]

Your country and your middle-east buddy has been arming them for years dude. The news was like this -

"" India and Israel gives military aid to military junta of myanmar including aircraft ""

sounds great?

you know what sounds even better , look at this

Myanmar air force - 40 F-7 (China)
2 J-6 (China)
30 A-5 (China)
12 Hongdu K-8 Karakorum (China)

These are just fighter aircrafts buddy , the list under transport aircraft is even longer from China. On the other hand India lists HAL Dhruv to myanmar .

 

[p2prada]

We can probably send a couple of missile boats and stop the disturbance.

Anyways, this will be solved diplomatically.

 

[Raquib]

BTW china is the biggest arms supplier to Burma. Why leave them out ?

Regards

Yes, that one might be true...but you should also keep in mind that Bangladesh is the largest equipment buyer of China...

 

[Raquib]

We can probably send a couple of missile boats and stop the disturbance.

Anyways, this will be solved diplomatically.

you better not interfare in our matters. we will do whatever is needed to protect our water from the evils.

 

[ejaz007]

Bangladesh is now holding about 2 million Burmese Rohingya refuges. Also there are 450000 standard Pakistani living in here after 1971 as they didn't get back. Pakistan refused to take them back (This year BD Govt. has given all of them Bangladeshi nationality) as Pakistan is already holding huge number of refuges from Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the brotherhood that we have in our Muslim world, to help people when they are in huge trouble.

Can you confirm the number of Pakistani's stranded in Bangladesh. If you have given them nationality then they are not Pakistanis.

By the way we do not have Iraqi refugees.

Who is in big trouble and how have you helped? Pakistan has been taking care of 3 million Afghans for years and we can certainly take care of few thousand more of our own. However unfortunately the case has become controversial and a lot of innocent are suffering as a result.

 

[Nihat]

you better not interfare in our matters. we will do whatever is needed to protect our water from the evils.

thats right - 0 interference , it's BD 's issue

 

[BanglaBhoot]

The Myanmar exploration vessels and warships have vacated the area and BD is now back in control. Diplomacy worked.

 

[third eye]

Thats the right way to solve a prob.

 

[PeaceForAll]

Myanmar refuses to back down in row with Bangladesh


YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar refused to back down Thursday in a row with Bangladesh, vowing it would continue to explore gas in disputed waters despite a four-day standoff between warships in the Bay of Bengal.

Myanmar, which has discovered huge reserves of natural gas in the Bay of Bengal, insisted its exploration work was legal.

"The government of the Union of Myanmar rejects the wrongful demands of Bangladesh as it has been working according to international law," said a statement broadcast on Myanmar state television.

"In order to protect and maintain the benefit of the country the exploration of (area) AD7 will continue until it has finished," it added.

The two countries have held a series of meetings in the past year aimed at resolving the dispute over their maritime boundary.

Tensions flared when Myanmar sent warships to support a Korean company drilling some 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Bangladesh's Saint Martin Island.


Bangladesh immediately deployed four warships to the area and warned it would take "all possible measures" to protect its sovereignty.

But Myanmar's ruling junta said its support of the Korean company Daewoo was in accordance with a contract agreed in 2005 for "Myanmar's special economic zone."

"While the company was working, neighbouring Bangladesh unlawfully and wrongfully demanded an immediate halt to drilling on the Myanmar side saying the AD7 offshore field is in their waters," state media announced.

Earlier Thursday, a Bangladesh naval official said Myanmar had withdrawn two warships, but this could not be confirmed.

Bangladesh foreign secretary Touhid Hossain flew to Myanmar on Wednesday for talks on the row.

Three members of the Bangladesh delegation had already arrived in Yangon on Wednesday, and a Myanmar government official said Thursday that they had headed to the isolated capital Naypyidaw for talks with junta officials.

Another official from Myanmar's military government said Wednesday the country was open to talks, but insisted that oil and gas companies were operating inside its own territory and far away from the disputed sea boundary.



Seems like diplomacy did not work!! this news was a few hrs ago...

 

[BanglaBhoot]

Daewoo withdrawing from Bay: adviser

Dhaka, Nov 6 (bdnews24.com) – Daewoo, the Korean construction giant that got the contract from Myanmar to explore oil and gas in the disputed waters in the Bay of Bengal, suspended work late Thursday, the foreign adviser has told bdnews24.com.

"According to information received from government sources of the Republic of Korea, the Daewoo-Myanmar Company has already initiated the process of withdrawal of the installation placed in areas claimed by Bangladesh as her territorial waters," Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said in the evening.

"This is indeed good news, if true, and would mean that our initiatives have paid off," he said.

The adviser talked to the South Korean ambassador to try to persuade Daewoo to leave the disputed waters.

Dhaka also turned to China, which has huge influence over Myanmar, a reclusive country run by the military junta since early 1960s, to make it to agree to stop the exploration.

Iftekhar said on Thursday he had received a letter from Daewoo company which stated that the dismantling process had begun and it might take a few days to complete.

"Of course we have goodwill for Myanmar, a close neighbour, but critical national interests have to be protected," the adviser said.


A high-powered Bangladesh delegation, headed by foreign secretary Md Touhid Hossain, on Thursday had talks with his Myanmar counterpart in its capital Yangon to that suspend the exploration.

The adviser said a high-level meeting, chaired by the chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed, in the evening underscored Bangladesh's "strong resolve".

Foreign and home advisers, the chiefs of armed forces, and other senior civil and military officers attended the meeting.

Bangladesh and Myanmar were in a "crisis" over the exploration of oil and gas in the disputed waters, some 60 nautical miles off the Saint Martin's Island, in the Bay of Bengal.

As per an agreement, the two countries pledged not to carry out oil and gas exploration in the disputed waters until the disagreement was resolved.

But Myanmar awarded Daewoo the contract prompting Dhaka to send frigates to the area.

A technical delegation, headed by a deputy minister of Myanmar, will arrive in Dhaka to continue sea boundary delimitation talks on Nov 16 and 17.

bdnews24.com/krc/bd/2022hours

<font color=red size=5>Daewoo withdrawing from Bay: adviser</font> :: Bangladesh :: bdnews24.com ::

 

[PeaceForAll]

Hey MBI, the news u posted is dated :
Thu, Nov 6th, 2008 9:29 pm BdST

the one I posted is
Friday November 7, 12:48 AM
link:
Myanmar refuses to back down in row with Bangladesh

and it says that myanmar has refused to backout!!!

 

[BanglaBhoot]

Hey PeaceForAll you don't seem that peaceful at all.

Lets hope diplomacy works out but if Daewoo is leaving the area then what is the point of Myanmar making these statements?

There is another angle to this and that involves the elections in BD scheduled for December 18. If Myanmar pushes this issue then this will bring a military response from BD and probable cancellation of elections and maybe even the military stepping in. That would really piss off the Indians who have stage managed everything to secure an AL victory.

 

[Nihat]

That would really piss off the Indians who have stage managed everything to secure an AL victory.

from Where did you get that , eh!!

btw - I missed your posts a lot while you took a little break.

 

[PeaceForAll]

Hey PeaceForAll you don't seem that peaceful at all.

I just quoted the difference in times of the news that we posted and u got personal!!

I have no where mentioned that diplomacy should not win or that war should happen. You mentioned a post saying they withdrew, i mentioned a post later than that saying that they dint. Please stop getting personal.

Please specify where does it show in my post that i was nt giving peace a chance. and I was quoting a neutral source - yahoo asia!!