DHAKA: India has “responded positively” to offering Bangladesh rail transit access to Nepal, Bangladeshi foreign secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes has said. Briefing journalists after meeting his visiting Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao yesterday, Quayes said she had expressed her government’s “appreciation” for Bangladesh’s role in security related issues. “The Indian side has responded positively to giving us rail transit through three bordering points (Birol-Radhikapur, Rahanpur-Singhabad and Chilahati-Haldibari),” Quayes said. The secretary also said that the two countries would sign three agreements during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India in December. These are an agreement for mutual legal assistance on criminal matters, agreement of transfer of sentenced persons and an agreement on combating international terrorism, organised crimes and illegal drug trafficking. Rao also met PM Sheikh Hasina, foreign minister Dipu Moni and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia the same day. Quayes said he and Rao vowed to resolve to outstanding border problems “as soon as possible”. “During the talks, Rao said border killings should stop immediately,” said Quayes. Frequent killings of Bangladeshis by the India’s Border Security Force is one of the thorny issues between the two countries. There are more than five kilometres of un-demarcated land boundary between Bangladesh and India. He said they also discussed implementation of the Dhaka-Delhi joint agreements reached during foreign minister Dipu Moni’s visit to India in September. Rao told journalists after the talks at state guest house Padma, “This is a significant visit. We discussed different issues of the joint agreements.” Quayes said Bangladesh, as announced in a recent joint statement, would allow India to carry machinery to its northeastern states to set up a power plant. He said India would sell 250 megawatts of electricity produced at the power plant in Palatana. Replying to a question on whether Bangladesh would give India multi-modal transit facilities via Ashuganj, Quayes said, “There was no mention of declaring Ashuganj a port of call in the joint statement”. He, however, said any development could take place during PM Sheikh Hasina’s meeting with her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in Delhi in December.