Chief Adviser leaves Dhaka tonight to attend D-8 Summit 

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus will leave Dhaka today midnight to attend the 11th D-8 Summit to be held in Cairo, Egypt.

Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafikul Alam said this at a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy on Tuesday.

A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the chief adviser and his entourage will depart Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 1 am, the press briefing was told.

The summit will be held under the theme "Investing in Youth and Supporting SMEs: Shaping Tomorrow's Economy."

The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, known as Developing-8, was founded in 1997.

It is an organisation that promotes development cooperation among its member states.

These states include major Muslim-majority countries such as Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey, which, according to some estimates, comprise about 14 percent of the global population.