Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq said the Awami League government is obligated to the people to hold a free, fair, and violence-free national election as British High Commissioner in Dhaka Sarah Cooke paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Dhaka on Thursday.
“Now more or less our attention is on polls, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government is pledge-bound to the people to hold a free, fair and violence-free election,” he said while replying to journalists over his meeting with the British envoy.
Huq said it was Sarah Cooke’s first meeting with him, and he had acquaintance with her when she served as the head of the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
During the meeting, they discussed various issues relating to mutual interests including the next election, cooperation in the law sector, and Bangladesh’s socio-economic development.
Appreciating Bangladesh’s progress in different sectors, the British envoy said she is very happy to get the opportunity to return to Bangladesh.
Noting the influence of British law on the legacy of Bangladesh’s legal system to a large extent, the minister said, however, Bangladesh’s legal system has been developed in many aspects.
For further improvement of the legal framework, they laid importance on training of Bangladesh’s judicial officers and lawyers.
