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D-8 permanent secretariat to be set up
The permanent secretariat of the Group of Eight Developing States (D-8) will be
established in future, the Director General of Iran's Economic and
International Cooperation Department said on Saturday.
Hadi Soleimani-Pour told IRNA that the permanent secretariat of D-8 will be
located in Turkey.
D-8 comprises eight developing Muslim nations namely Iran, Bangladesh, Egypt,
Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia.
It was set up in 1997 as an economic alliance with the objective of improving
the position of Muslim developing countries in the global world economy through
diversification of their economy and creation of new opportunities via
increased trade relations.
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