Dhaka: A five-day long top-level border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar Police Force (MPF) will begin in Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw on Saturday.

BGB Director General Major General Md Shafeenul Islam will lead the 11-member Bangladesh delegation while Chief of Police General Staff of Myanmar Police Force Police Brigadier General Myo Than will lead the 17-member Myanmar delegation in the conference, reports the UNB.

The conference will end on April 10, said Mohsin Reza, public relation officer (PRO) of the BGB headquarters.

Apart from the BGB, officials of the Prime Minister’s office, Home and Foreign Ministries will also take part in the border talks.

In addition to MPF officials’, senior officials of Myanmar Foreign and Defense Ministries will also participate in the conference.

Border related security issues, including prevention of smuggling of illegal drugs, especially, yaba pills, end of firing at frontiers, trespass into Bangladesh territory by Myanmar nationals, repatriation of convicted nationals of both the countries after completion of their respective jail terms will be discussed in the conference.