UN hopes for free, fair polls

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United Nations secretary general's office has expressed its goal that a climate could be created where forgive and fair elections could believe place in Bangladesh.

Talking to reporters, Stphane Dujarric, a UNSG spokesperson, yesterday said, We've expressed our situation This is our principal slant.

He said these subsequent to asked whether the UNSG had taken any behave to reprieve BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

Khaleda was convicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft proceedings by a special court in Dhaka concerning February 8. She was sentenced to five years' in prison.

The BNP has been demonstrating for her general pardon.

Asked about Rohingya repatriation to Myanmar, the UN chief's spokesperson said, Any reward needs to be voluntary and should not be motivated.

They should not go aerate to camps. They compulsion to go backing to their homes, the homes that they were goaded to depart. So, there are all sorts of conditions that the High Commissioner for Refugees vibes have not been met, he was quoted in the detailed text of a press briefing published upon the UN website yesterday.

With the process of Rohingya repatriation caught in a limbo, Bangladesh handed Myanmar a list of 8,032 refugees from 1,673 families, who are likely to be the first batch to compensation to their homeland.

Nearly 700,000 Rohingyas have crossed on zenith of into Bangladesh by now a military repulsive began in reply to an insurgent takeover upon August 25 last year. More than 300,000 others, who crossed well along than from Myanmar in the previous years, are with staying in Bangladesh.
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Source: thedailystar

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