Bangladesh-India relations: The Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty and beyond
In: Asian affairs: an American review, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 131-150
ISSN: 0092-7678
On 12th December 1996, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, of Bangladesh and India, respectively, signed a treaty in New Delhi on the sharing of Ganges water. The author traces the negotiations held between India (on the one hand, and Pakistan and Bangladesh (since 1975) on the other from 1950 to 1996. He highlights the fundamental differences among the countries on the question of sharing the water of the Ganges, (DÜI-Sen)