{"id":12751,"date":"2025-09-23T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:09:23","slug":"bangladesh-ready-to-hold-free-fair-polls-cheif-adviser-tells-us-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=12751","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh ready to hold free, fair polls, Cheif Adviser tells US envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ET Desk:<\/strong> Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus Tuesday, 23 sep, said his government is prepared to ensure a free, fair, and peaceful general election in the first half of February in Bangladesh as he had a meeting with United States (US) Special Envoy Sergio Gor here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The election will be held in February. It will be free, fair, and peaceful. The country is fully prepared,&#8221; he told the Special Envoy for South and Central Asia and the US Ambassador-designate to India on Monday (NY time).<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Gor commended the Chief Adviser\u2019s leadership and reiterated the United States\u2019 willingness to support the country&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the two sides discussed a wide range of bilateral and regional issues, including trade, South Asian regional cooperation, the revival of SAARC, the Rohingya crisis, and the proliferation of disinformation targeting Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Adviser sought continued US support for more than one million Rohingya refugees currently residing in camps in Cox\u2019s Bazar. In response, the US official said the life-saving aide for the Rohingyas would continue.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Yunus noted that the interim government has intensified efforts to revive SAARC, which has not held a summit in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed Bangladesh\u2019s interest in joining ASEAN, stating that integration with Southeast Asian economies could significantly accelerate the country\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he emphasised the importance of strengthening economic ties with landlocked Nepal and Bhutan, as well as with India\u2019s seven Northeastern states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can accelerate our economic growth through closer regional cooperation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Adviser extended an invitation to Sergio Gor to visit Bangladesh at his earliest convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus Tuesday, 23 sep, said his government is prepared to ensure a free, fair, and peaceful general election in the first half of February in Bangladesh as he had a meeting with United States (US) Special Envoy Sergio Gor here. &#8220;The election will be held in February. It will be free, fair, and peaceful. The country is fully prepared,&#8221; he told the Special Envoy for South and Central Asia and the US Ambassador-designate to India on Monday (NY time). Sergio Gor commended the Chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-lead-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12753,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions\/12753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}