Staff Correspondent:
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas has said his country will send a monitoring team in early October to assess the pre-polls situation ahead of Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections”I informed him (chief election commissioner) that in early October, US will be sending a pre-election assessment and monitoring team comprising experts from the Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, with vast experience in election monitoring and election preparation,” he said.He made the comment after holding a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal at the Election Commission building in Dhaka’s Agargaon area on Tuesday.”I will repeat what you heard me say before, that the United States’ only interest in the elections is they be free, fair and peaceful and that the people of Bangladesh have the ability to choose who governs them,” he said.The US ambassador was accompanied by Deputy Political and Economic Counsellor at the embassy, Arturo Hines. Election Commissioner Md Ahsan Habib Khan and EC Secretary Md Jahangir Alam were also present at the meeting.

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