A regional Counter-Terrorism Center will be set up in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka with financial and technological assistance from European Union (EU) to train people across South Asia to combat terrorism. The international standard center will start functioning early next year, said Stefan Frowein, ambassador of EU Delegation to Bangladesh, leading English newspaper The Daily Star reported on Wednesday. The EU envoy said when he called on Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Tuesday that they will not set up any building for the center. Renowned counter- terrorism experts from European countries, the United States and Canada will train investigators, police and intelligence agency personnel to fight terrorism. He noted happily that South Asian countries like India and Pakistan agreed with the EU plan to set up the counter-terrorism center in Bangladesh, which will be the second after the first one in Indonesia. 'We have chosen Bangladesh to host the regional center considering its strong commitment to eliminate all sorts of terrorism,' Stefan Frowein was quoted. He said 1.5 million euro was available for setting up the center in Dhaka. Elaborating, he said security officials, investigators, police officials and intelligence agency people from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Myanmar and some other countries will come to Dhaka to have counter-terrorism training. 