The Sangai Express / Agencies

New Delhi, September 21 2013 : India has close relations with Myanmar on several fronts in-cluding security, energy secu- rity and food security but both sides have “some remaining boundary issues” for which a solution is being worked out, a top official said on Friday.

Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, secretary, economic relations, in the ministry of external affairs, said India’s relations with Myanmar is strategic gi-ven their shared land boun- dary in India’s northeast and the Bay of Bengal.

While both sides have ink-ed an MoU on border area development, “we do have some remaining boundary issues where there are problems of identifying where construc-tion can be done or cannot be done …