US envoy meets with Fakhrul, discusses ‘free and fair elections’

United States ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Tuesday met with main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in Dhaka and discussed free and fair elections and campaign processes.

They also touched upon ‘additional important priorities’ the United States and Bangladesh share.

‘Ambassador Haas met with BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and discussed free and fair elections and campaign processes, and additional important priorities the United States and Bangladesh share,’ US embassy in Dhaka tweeted in the afternoon.

Earlier, Ambassador Haas held a meeting at the residence of Prime Minister’s Private Sector Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman in the morning. Apart from Law Minister Anisul Huq, a director general of the Foreign Ministry was present at the meeting, it is learnt.

On Sunday morning, a Jatiya Party delegation led by party chairman Ghulam Mohammad Quader met Ambassador Haas at his Gulshan residence.