Will not allow any activity inimical to India: Myanmar

Myanmar today assured India that it will not allow its soil to be used for any activity inimical to Indian interests.
This assurance was given to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by Myanmar President U Thein Sein during a bilateral meeting on the eve of the 3rd BIMSTEC Summit here.
President Thein Sein assured Prime Minister Singh that their soil would be allowed to be used for any activity inimical to India's interests, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters.
Khurshid was responding to a question on reports of insurgent groups operating from this country for anti-India activities.
Both sides share information on this issue, he said.

Senior officials said Singh underlined the importance India attached to its bilateral ties with Myanmar and the need for further consolidating cooperation in energy and other areas to substantially increase the volume of trade from the present level of USD two billion.

Prime Minister Singh today arrived here on a two-day visit for the Summit of the seven-nation grouping Bay Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).
BIMSTEC is an expression of India's Look East Policy of the 1990s, coinciding with Thailand's Look West Policy.
The seven members - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal - bring together over 20 per cent of the world population, which is about 1.5 billion, and a GDP of over USD 2.5 trillion.

India and Myanmar share a 1,600 km-long land boundary along Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur and Agartala.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Singh also had a separate meeting with his new Nepali counterpart Sushil Koirala.
Premier Koirala was keen that Prime Minister Singh visit Nepal at the earliest, Khurshid said.
Singh told Koirala that it may be difficult for a visit by him at this juncture as India was preparing for general elections and suggested that the Nepalese leader could visit India.
During the talks, Singh assured Koirala that India will not be found wanting in its support for democracy in Nepal.