Leaders of Awami League and BNP have held a
second round of meeting on Wednesday in presence of UN Assistant
Secretary-General Oscar Fernández-Taranco.
The meeting continued for more than two hours starting from 12.30pm at the office of an UN-funded project at Gulshan.
None of the parties spoke to the media about what they discussed.
The UNDP's Dhaka office said that Fernández-Taranco will brief the media at 5.30pm at Hotel Sonargaon.
Awami
League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, Advisory Council members
Amir Hossain Amu and Tofail Ahmed and Prime Minister's International
Affairs Advisor Gowher Rizvi made up the ruling party’s delegation.
The
BNP team included the party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul
Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee members Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and
Abdul Moyeen Khan and Vice Chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury.
Earlier, Industry Minister Tofail Ahmed said the talks are continuing.
He
also did not provide any indication about the issues that might be
raised in the discussions but they will surely center round the
poll-time dispensation that has been the bone of contention so far.
The
first round of discussions between the two battling alliances led by
these parties took place on Tuesday after UN envoy Oscar
Fernández-Taranco was able to get both sides to the table.
Amid
much hide-and-seek with the media, senior leaders of both parties held
the first round of talks at the residence of the UN resident coordinator
Neal Walker.
“Both sides agreed to continue the dialogue in the
spirit of good will, and compromise and to work constructively together
to decrease tensions and build confidence," Fernandez-Taranco had said
in a statement on Tuesday.
Fernández-Taranco also extended his stay in Bangladesh by a day and is likely to leave the country on Wednesday.
“At
the invitation of the United Nations Secretary General, representatives
of both parties have met and engaged in a dialogue,” he said. "I want
to take the opportunity to applaud the decision to sit down and seize
the opportunity."
“This (meeting) shows political leadership,
responsibility and courage, and it is also an answer to the expectation
of people of Bangladesh,” he continued.
Fernández-Taranco, who
held more than twenty meetings since his arrival at Dhaka on Friday, did
not take any questions, promising to address media queries before
leaving on Wednesday.
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