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UN chief for inclusive, credible polls

Writes to Hasina, Khaleda again

DIPLOMATIC CORRESPON DENT
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an "inclusive, non-violent and credible" election in Bangladesh and encouraged the two major political parties to engage in constructive dialogues to that end.
In separate letters to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition
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leader Khaleda Zia before UN Assistant Secretary-General (UNASG) for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco comes to Dhaka, Ban gave a strong message of an inclusive election and emphasised reaching a consensus.
Taranco is due to arrive on December 6 evening with a high-profile political mission on a four-day visit. His delegation would be comprised of UN officials drawn from the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and Electoral Assistance Division (EAD).
The foreign ministry has initially denied the news but later said they had received the letter on November 27 and sent it to Prime Minister's Office.
"I have handed over the letter to her [Khaleda Zia]," BNP Vice-President Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told The Daily Star yesterday.
Diplomatic sources said the UN chief in his letter had categorically said the election should certainly be "inclusive, non-violent and credible" to the people of Bangladesh.
They said the UN chief had also mentioned the word "inclusive election" twice and informed Hasina and Khaleda that he was sending his deputy Oscar Taranco to
encourage dialogues and conditions conducive to parliamentary polls.
Ban had also requested the two leaders to cooperate with his envoy, who would lead a "political mission" to discuss with top government and political leaders, national electoral officials to find out a way for an inclusive election, they added.
The foreign ministry officials, however, termed Ban's letter a routine one and was sort of a notification to inform that he was sending a senior LIN official to Dhaka for discussion and sought cooperation of all concerned.
Though Ban in his letter talked about upcoming election and a dialogue, it was not a politically important one, they added.
The diplomatic sources said the UN chief regretted the violence that erupted during the recent political programmes like hartal and blockade, which resulted in deaths of several people and injuries to many others.
However, another source said AK Abdul Momen, ambassador and permanent representative to UN, who is now in Dhaka, had himself taken the letter of Ban to the prime minister. In the letter Ban said the problems could be solved if the two leaders -- Hasina and Khaleda - sat together.