{"id":12519,"date":"2024-03-08T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:29:45","slug":"us-to-send-pre-election-assessment-and-monitoring-team-in-early-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/us-to-send-pre-election-assessment-and-monitoring-team-in-early-october\/","title":{"rendered":"US to send pre-election assessment and monitoring team in early October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador Peter Haas on Tuesday said the United States will be sending a pre-election assessment and monitoring team in early October to assess the situation ahead of Bangladesh&#8217;s next parliamentary election. <\/p>\n<p>Haas spoke to reporters after a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal at the Election Commission office in Dhaka today.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Haas said, &#8220;I informed him (chief election commissioner) that in early October, US will be sending a pre-election assessment and monitoring team comprising experts from the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute, with vast experience in election monitoring and election preparation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He further added, &#8220;I will repeat what you heard me say before, that the United States&#8217; only interest in the elections is they be free, fair and peaceful and that the people of Bangladesh have the ability to choose who governs them&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador Peter Haas on Tuesday said the United States will be sending a pre-election assessment and monitoring team in early October to assess the situation ahead of Bangladesh&#8217;s next parliamentary election. Haas spoke to reporters after a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal at the Election Commission office in Dhaka today. Peter &#8230; <a title=\"US to send pre-election assessment and monitoring team in early October\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/us-to-send-pre-election-assessment-and-monitoring-team-in-early-october\/\" aria-label=\"More on US to send pre-election assessment and monitoring team in early October\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12520,"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/12520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinhongkong.discoverhongkong.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}