US hopes free, peaceful polls in Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent: The United States expects the upcoming 11^th parliamentary elections slated for December 30 in Bangladesh would be free, fair and credible.

Newly-appointed US Ambassador in Dhaka Robert Earl Miller made his optimism during a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The newly-appointed US ambassador paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister at her Ganabhaban residence on Monday morning.

“We hope free, fair, credible and peaceful national elections will be held in Bangladesh on December 30,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted the envoy as saying during the courtesy call.

The US ambassador informed the prime minister that his country will send 32 observers to monitor Bangladesh’s upcoming national elections.

“Eleven teams of the US embassy will observe the polls,” he said.


risingbd/Dhaka/Dec 17, 2018/NA/AI