Dhaka, Jan 3
The US has yet to decide whether it would recognise Bangladesh's Jan 5 general elections with its state department's deputy spokesperson saying that the failure of parties to reach a consensus was clearly "not a good sign.
"But I don't want to prejudge the outcome or what we will say afterwards," bdnews24.com quoted Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson of the state department, as saying Thursday in Washington.
"As I have been clear, they haven't taken steps to hold free, fair, and credible elections, so clearly that's not a good sign," she said when asked if the US would recognise the elections in which the major opposition is not participating.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)'s boycott over the poll-time government issue has led to more than half of the seats resulting into uncontested victories for candidates.
By:IANS