Foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said that the European Union would send a seven-member team to observe the upcoming 12th national elections.
"They informed us recently. We accepted this. We wouldn't need to pay for that," he said on Sunday while replying to a question at a press briefing on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to Brussels from Tuesday to Thursday.
The European Union earlier informed that they would not send the full-fledged election observation mission due to fund constraints.
The foreign minister later said they wanted to send a small team if Bangladesh bears the cost.
The EU observers are likely to reach Bangladesh on November 21. They would stay in Bangladesh for two months.
Earlier, the EU wrote to the Election Commission saying it would not observe the Bangladesh general election due to fund constraints, following a pre-election observation mission's report.
A six-member election exploratory mission of the European Union (EU) visited Bangladesh from July 8 to 23 at the invitation of the Election Commission (EC).
The delegation mainly assessed the scope, planning, budget, logistics and security aspects of the election observation mission.
