DHAKA, August 3, 2023 (BSS) – Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq said the Awami League government is pledged bound 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 here today.

“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 next election, cooperation in law sector and Bangladesh’s socio-economic development.

Appreciating Bangladesh’s progress in different sector the British envoy said she is very happy to get the opportunity to return Bangladesh.

Noting about the legacy of Bangladesh’s legal system to a large extent over the British law, 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.”

Secretary of the law and justice division  Md. Golam Sarwar and British High Commission officials Md Rafiquzzaman and Vanessa Beaumont were present.