B’desh keen on enhanciang co-op with Indian Navy

Bangladesh on Monday sought greater cooperation with Indian Navy to tackle "non-traditional" threats in the sea as the eastern neighbour gets ready to explore oil and natural gas in its waters.

Bangladesh Navy chief Vice Admiral Muhammad Farid Habib, who is on a visit to India, will be reviewing the existing cooperation between the navies and explore future avenues. "Since the delimitation of maritime border problem has been solved, we are now trying to cooperate. We trying to patrol in our areas. So in our sea, we also expect lot of gas and oil," Habib said. 

He said Bangladesh wants to work with the Indian Navy as there are many "non-traditional threats" in sea, a reference to piracy, floating armouries among others.