Front-ranking leaders of the Awami League and BNP held a meeting in the capital’s Gulshan on Friday afternoon.
Our correspondent reports that the meeting had started at 4pm.
Representatives from the top two political parties attended the meeting in the presence of UN Resident Coordinator Neil Walker.
Two four-member teams from both parties, the Awami League team comprising of General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister Gowher Rizvi, Amir Hossain Amu and Tofail Ahmed, and the BNP side comprising of acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza Abdul Moin Khan and Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, represented their respective sides in talk.
The representatives met for the third time as part of the negotiation process initiated by UN envoy Ocsar Fernandez-Taranco who apparently had failed to achieve any real progress in the previous two spells of discussions.
Fernandez-Taranco’s move to bring the two rival parties to a negotiation table instilled some hope in the country's people.
On the eve of his departure, Taranco said that the politicians of Bangladesh have made a promise to continue with the dialogues in finding a solution of the current impasse.