The Crime Desk: Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor to the interim government, will address Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, today. He is currently in the country’s capital, Cairo, on a two-day visit to attend the 11th D-8 Summit.
The chief advisor’s deputy press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar, said that the chief advisor will address Al-Azhar University on Thursday, December 19.
He said that Professor Yunus will address the Egyptian university at the invitation of Ahmed El-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif Mosque.
Earlier, on November 12 this year, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque Ahmed Al-Tayeb invited the Chief Advisor to the Bangladesh Interim Government, Professor Muhammad Yunus, to deliver a speech at Al-Azhar University.
During the visit, the Chief Advisor will attend the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, known as the D-8 Summit. The summit will be held in the Egyptian capital on Thursday.
The Deputy Press Secretary also said that on the sidelines of the summit, the Chief Advisor is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and heads of government of D-8 member states.
The Chief Advisor and his entourage arrived in Cairo at around 11:00 am local time on Wednesday (December 18). The flight carrying the chief advisor left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Egypt at 1:20 am on Tuesday (December 17).
It is known that the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, was established for mutual development cooperation among Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.
