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Talks with Opposition leaders today

By Staff Correspondent
The _ Commonwealth Secretary General's emissary Sjr Ninian Stephen, who arrived in the city yesterday .to facilitate dialogue between the. opposing political camps, sits with the leaders of the opposition' parties and groups in Parliament this morning.
The opposition leaders'met yesterday evening to decide the strategy for today's talks with Ninian. According to meeting sources, the opposition leaders would explain to Ninian the nature of the present political stalemate and reasons behind it.
We shall explain to\ him the Justification for the Opposition struggle, including boycott of Parliament proceedings. In demand for holding general elections under a non-partisan caretaker government, an opposition leader-who attended yesterday's meeting told The Daily Star. On the question of the order of subjects at the proposed talks, the Opposition yesterday resolved once again that it would not allow any topic to come before the caretaker government issue. May be. Commonwealth Secretary Genera] Chief Emeka's proposed agenda included the caretaker government issue as the second item, but the- ruling party leader and Deputy Leader of Parliament Prof Badruddoza Chowdhury, in his letters to Deputy Leader •of the Opposition Abdys Samad Azad, always mentioned the caretaker government issue a^ the first Item for the proposed dialogue". the opposition- leader added.
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) sources, however, said that the Opposition did not respond ‘positively to^Lgoverijment Inflated dialogue They have actually agreed to the
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Commonwealth-brokered talks and the Commonwealth Secretary General prepared the agenda only after he had had separate communications with Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina. The opposition now should, not press for discussing the caretaker adminis-tration Issue as the first item at the dialogue, a top ranking BNP leader told this correspondent yesterday.
Meanwhile, leaders of both the BNP and the principal opposition party Awami League (AL) separately met Ninian at the state guest house Meghna yesterday evening.
The BNP leaders including Prof Badruddoza Chowdhury met Ninian at 5 pm and the AL leaders at 6.30 pm.
Both the sides claimed that these were merely courtesy visits.
Ninian is expected to meet Sheikh Hasina sometime today and meet Begum Khaleda Zia tomorrow.
The dialogue is likely to begin the day after.