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militants would not be able to survive if the transportation of ration supplies
from India was stopped.
At the same time, he expressed the view that it was difficult to stop the
movement of people across the border despite the presence of tens of thousands
of security forces along the India border. He also expressed doubts about the
ULFA honouring the agreement they had signed with the Royal Government.
The Thimphu Chimi said that the agreed minutes of the meeting between the
Royal Government and the ULFA leaders, copies of which were given to the
Assembly members, was the outcome of the continuous efforts made by the
Government to resolve the ULFA-Bodo problem through the first three
approaches of the four point decision passed by the 77 th Session of the National
Assembly. He thanked the Home Minister for clearly explaining the agreed
minutes to the Assembly members. Although the militants had agreed to
remove four of their camps by December 2001, the Government and the people
should not remain complacent with this agreement but also work on ways and
means to ensure that the five remaining camps are also removed.
Speaking on the issue, the Minister for Agriculture noted that in the entire
history of the country of the Palden Drukpa, no other problem had posed so
serious a threat to the security of the nation as the presence of the ULFA and
Bodo militants on Bhutanese soil today. In spite of extensive discussions in the
recent sessions of the National Assembly, the highest decision making body in
the country, the members had not been able to come up with a concrete proposal
to remove this problem. As a result, His Majesty the King had suggested a
three-pronged strategy to remove the militants, which was unanimously
endorsed by the members of the National Assembly. In addition, the 78 th
Session of the National Assembly last year had resolved that if the problem
could not be removed through peaceful means, there would be no other option
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