The United Nations hopes that the next general polls will be the best election in the history of Bangladesh, reports UNB.
"We are supporting the EC to conduct a free, fair election; hopefully the best election in the history of Bangladesh, and that is the aspiration," Stefan Liller, Resident Representative, UNDP Bangladesh told reporters after joining a briefing for development partners, arranged by the Election Commission.
Envoys and representatives of 18 countries including USA, UK, EU, Japan, China, South Korea, also attended the briefing held at the EC office in Dhaka.
Stefan said that the matter of the timeframe of the next general election is upto the interim government and the Election Commission.
"We have nothing to do with that," he said.
Stefan said that the EC made a request to the UN in December last year for electoral support, and based on that request a needs assessment team visited in January for two weeks to decide what type of technical support the UN can provide to EC.
On the basis of their recommendation they had some initial discussion with the development partners on different areas, including strengthening the EC, the training institutions, voter registration and others.
Bd-Pratidin English/ AM
