The ruling Awami League has met with the Commonwealth and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's election observation team just before the 12th parliamentary polls.
The first meeting took place at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka on Friday morning.
General Secretary Obaidul Quader led the 10-member Awami League delegation, while former Jamaican prime minister Orette Bruce Golding headed the 15-strong Commonwealth team.
Welcoming the Commonwealth election observation team, the ruling party reiterated its commitment to making the January 7 election free, fair and acceptable.
Saber Hossain Chowdhury, the prime minister's special envoy on environment and climate change, Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, the deputy education minister, Biplab Barua, the Awami League’s office secretary, and Mohammad Ali Arafat, the lawmaker representing Dhaka-17, among others, were present in the meeting.
Later in the day, a meeting between a three-member OIC delegation, led by Yousef AlDobeay, assistant secretary-general of political affairs of the OIC, and the Awami League took place at the party's office in Tejgaon.
