Bhutan and India sign border agreement

Thimphu, December 12: Bhutan and India have formally demarcated their 699-km border on Wednesday signing the final strip maps, 45 years after the process for settling the boundary began.
 
Officials of the two countries Tuesday signed the 'mutually demarcated border' maps at a meeting in Thimphu.

'This is indeed a landmark agreement as the two countries had mutually agreed to demarcate the borders without any differences of opinion,' a Bhutanese official in the meeting said.

Indian envoy to Bhutan, Sudhir Vyas, and the secretary for international boundaries, Dasho Pema Wangchuk, signed the agreement.

The two countries have also decided to erect border pillars and markers to define the boundary. The Bhutan-India border is unfenced and separated by concrete pillars in few places.

The process for demarcating the border began in 1961 with India sketching the boundary maps.

Bhutan is yet to demarcate its 470-km border with China. Bhutan News Service