Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has left Dhaka for Egypt Tuesday night on a two-day state visit to attend D-8 Summit scheduled to be held on 19 December.
A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the chief adviser and his entourage departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 1:00 am.
CA's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder at a press conference said that the theme of this year’s summit is "Investing in Youth and Supporting SMEs: Shaping Tomorrow's Economy."
He claimed that the issues of the conference's theme are important for Bangladesh.
The heads of government of some other countries, including Turkey, Iran, Indonesia and Pakistan will join the D-8 meet.
The theme of the D-8 summit reflects its commitment to fostering youth empowerment and promoting small- and medium-size enterprises to drive economic growth and development.
The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, known as Developing-8 was founded in 1997 to promote development cooperation among its member states.
The members of D-8 are Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.
These states include major Muslim-majority countries comprising about 14 percent of the global population.
