Commonwealth to send pre-election deligation on Nov 19
The Commonwealth will send a pre-election assessment mission to Dhaka from November 19-23. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said that he got the request via email earlier this week.
He said his office will inform the matter to the foreign and home ministries.
According to an EC official, the Commonwealth will decide on sending a full observer mission only after the findings of the pre-election mission are communicated to the Commonwealth secretary-general.
Earlier, the EU sent a pre-election mission and decided not to send a full observer mission. The EU, however, later said that they would send a four-member observer team to monitor the polls.
A US pre-election mission has visited Bangladesh but is yet to declare whether they will send a full mission or not.

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