Iran Press/Iran news: Masoud Pezeshkian, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, traveled to Egypt an hour ago to attend the 11th summit of the Organization for Economic Cooperation known as D-8.
The 11th summit of the D-8 will be held tomorrow, Thursday, with the participation of the presidents of the eight countries.
The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organization for development cooperation among Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.
The combined population of the eight countries is about 1.2 billion or 60% of all Muslims, or close to 13% of the world's population, and covers an area of 7.6 million square kilometers, 5% of the world's land area. In 2006, trade between the D-8 member states stood at $35 billion, and it was around $68 billion in 2010. Transactions between the eight developing countries accounted for 3.3 percent of world trade in 2010. The total nominal GDP of the eight nations was around 4.92 trillion as of 2023.
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