Bangladesh has launched an investigation into a border clash with India last month in which 19 soldiers were killed.
Foreign Secretary Syed Muazzem Ali told reporters late on Monday Bangladesh welcomed news that India had launched its own investigation into the incident.
"We too have started our own investigation to find out what went wrong at the Baraibari border," he said.
"We are very happy to learn of the inquiry India is reported to have begun," he said.
Ali said the investigation would determine the circumstances that led to an intrusion by Indian forces into Bangladesh territory, which led to "firing and death of people from both sides."
Bangladesh has blamed India for launching an unprovoked attack on northern Baraibari village and a nearby Bangladeshi Rifle border force outpost on April 18.
India has accused Bangladeshi forces of luring its border guards onto Bangladesh territory and torturing them to death.
Ali said both countries were holding regular meetings to defuse tension on their border.
Bangladesh has agreed to an Indian invitation for formal talks on the border problem later this month.
"Our priorities at the talks are exchange of enclaves, demarcation of undemarcated border and exchange of land under adverse possession," Ali said.
The two sides will discuss the 6.5 km (four miles) of the 4,000 km (2,500-mile) frontier between them which still remains to be demarcated, as well as the exchange of dozens of enclaves -- known as "adverse possessions."
These regions are marked on the map as belonging to one country but are occupied by the other.
Bangladeshi troops occupied one of those territories -- which Dhaka calls Padua, but New Delhi Pyrdiwah -- on the southern edge of the Indian state of Meghalaya on April 15 and took control of an Indian Border Security Force outpost.
Dhaka says it was forced to move into the area because Indian troops refused to stop building a road near the border there.
Bangladesh says India retaliated two days later by opening a front 200 km (125 miles) to the west, in Baraibari across from the southern corner of India's Assam state, where 16 Indian troops and three Bangladesh soldiers were killed – DHAKA (Reuters)
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