By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A United Nations monitoring team will arrive in Bangladesh in the coming weeks to assess the nation's parliamentary elections due in December, the UN chief said.
On Saturday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Bangladesh, which has been under emergency rule since January last year, to take all steps to ensure free and fair elections on December 18.
"I have informed the government and the political parties that the UN will dispatch a small team of highly capable and prominent individuals who will visit in the coming weeks to assess the conduct of the election and report to me," he told a Sunday news conference in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, after meeting President Iajuddin Ahmed, interim leader Fakhruddin Ahmed and other political leaders.
"It is in the world's and your best interest to see Bangladesh achieve its full potential for democratic development through free and credible elections," Ban said.
if(catID != 151){
var cont = `Take Israel home with the new Jerusalem Post Store