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Azad said Hasina would not stop over in New Delhi on May 17, on her way back from Brussels after attending a special United Nations session of least developed countries, due to 'domestic compulsions'.
May 17 marks Hasina's return from exile.
A similar move to fix a meeting on May 11, when Hasina leaves for Brussels, could also not fructify.
The visit to inaugurate the chancery would be the first after the killing of 16 Border Security Force jawans by the Bangladesh Rifles last month.
The date for the opening of the chancery building is yet to be finalised, he said.
Azad urged implementation of the Mujib-Indira accord for resolving outstanding border issues between the two countries.
He said the main issues were enclaves, adverse possession of areas and demarcation of boundary lines.
On an Indian campaign of variant positions of the BDR and the government over the April 18 border skirmish, the foreign minister dismissed it as ''a bad intention''.
On whether the action of the BDR was the action of the government, Azad said, ''It is always.''
''What the BDR was to do, they did that. They go by charter duty, which is set by the government,'' he said.
On the 'adverse possession' of frontier land, like Padua village, he said 3,124 acres of Indian land was under the possession of Bangladesh and about 3,556.31 acres of Bangladesh land in Indian possession.
Following instructions from the Bangladesh and Indian Governments, the BDR and BSF are holding regular flag meetings and keeping constant contact to maintain peace and tranquillity along the common border, he added.
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