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ITANAGAR: Demanding for an early settlement of the inter-state boundary issue between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, the apex students’ bodies of both the states urged the state governments of the neighbouring states to resolve the long-pending issue.
The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) have urged the governments of both the states to resolve the boundary issue between the two northeastern states at the earliest taking into confidence the people residing on both sides of the border. The students’ bodies in a joint statement said that both AAPSU and AASU agreed that peace and harmony is to be maintained in the border areas of both the states.
People-to-people contact and people-to-people relationship is the only way to create a peaceful atmosphere in the border areas. Aiming to create such a congenial environment, districts units of AAPSU and AASU will have meetings and adopt appropriate measures in this regard, the statement said.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by the chief ministers of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh - Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pema Khandu in New Delhi on April 20 this year in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to resolve the decades-old boundary dispute between the two neighbouring states. In July last year, the two chief ministers had signed the Namsai Declaration, setting in motion their efforts to solve the border row.
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