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Talks will not be fruitful without AL, BNP participation

Staff Correspondent
The much-talked-about dialogue between the government and political parties would not be fruitful without participation of the two major political parties—Awami League (AL) and BNP, an adviser of the caretaker government said yesterday.
"The situation will become serious if the two parties do not join the dialogue. What outcome the
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dialogue will bring then?" Communications Adviser Ghulam Quader said while talking on the fate of the dialogue if the two parties boycott it for not releasing their chiefs to lead their delegation.
Meanwhile, Commerce Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman said the talks with political parties that begin May 22 would end by June. He said the government would sit with Workers Party, Bikalpadhara Bangladesh and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD-Inu) separately.
The Awami League yesterday received official invitation to join the dialogue.
At the Secretariat yesterday morning, Ghulam Quader replied to a number of queries from newsmen about the political dialogue, especially the issues to come up in the national charter and release of the two fanner premiers.
Quader is one of the five advisers who were assigned to conduct the pre-dialogue talks.
"The national charter will be I signed on receipt of consent from all । [participants of the dialogue]," he said when asked about the charter
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed had mentioned in his May 12 address to the nation.
The chief adviser had stressed the need for adopting a national charter to establish a proper and fair electoral framework "which wall help launch a healthy and stable democratic process in the country".
Quader said the issues to come up in the charter would include how the government will run after the elections, a decision regarding hartal and problems of economy. "Decisions will be taken after discussion with all," he added.
On the demand for release of former prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, he said, "The political parties have to realise that there are legal procedures [for this]."
The Workers Party, Bikalpadhara and JSD-Inu will be the first three political parties to sit in the dialogue with the government and Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman said. "The three parties have responded to the invitation and sent us their delegation lists. We hope to finish the talks with them by May 25."
Zillur said they are preparing the
schedules of the dialogue on the basis of responses from the parties.
When reminded of the uncertainty about major political parties' participation, Zillur expressed hope, saying participating in the dialogue would make it a success.
"Once the dialogue begins, it will help create an atmosphere of trust.. .We believe the political parties are eager to work out solutions to the crises facing the nation," he said.
While the talks with these three parties will be bilateral, the government is collecting information if other political parties want to sit together. Zillur said.
AL RECEIVES INVITATION
The AL yesterday received caretaker government's official invitation for dialogue. The letter issued from the chief adviser's office asked the AL to send five to seven names of party representatives within a week to sit for the dialogue with the government.
AL acting general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam received the invitation, which makes no mention of specific date and place for the talks, at about 11 am at his NAM flat