Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is currently addressing the 11th Summit of the Developing Eight (D-8) countries being held in Cairo.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1997 in Istanbul, the D-8 Organisation for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organisation for development cooperation among Egypt, Nigeria, Turkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iran, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Its objective is to increase economic cooperation among member states to boost economic growth, sustain development and promote and improve standards of living by focusing on bringing improvement and enhancing cooperation in agriculture, trade, transportation, industry, energy, and tourism.<\/p>\n
At the outset of his speech, he thanked Egypt\u2019s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for a \u201cvery warm and generous welcome\u201d given to him and his delegation.<\/p>\n
The premier termed the D-8 a \u201cvery important platform for cooperation\u201d between its members, stressing that the summit was taking place at a \u201cvery critical juncture\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cCeasefire in Gaza is so important that without that, peace, prosperity and progress not only in the region but globally, will not be possible,\u201d the prime minister asserted.<\/p>\n
Addressing the leaders present at the summit, he said: \u201cIt is equally important, if not more, to discuss the situation in Gaza, the ceasefire in Lebanon and the potential threat of Israel\u2019s carnage in this area and the world over.\u201d<\/p>\n
He appreciated Sisi for allocating a separate session for the \u201cburning issue\u201d of crises in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Noting that the theme of today\u2019s summit pertained to investing in youth, PM Shehbaz emphasised it \u201cserved as a blueprint for collective prosperity in the 21st century\u201d. He termed the youth and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) the \u201ckey drivers of economic development in any society\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is currently addressing the 11th Summit of the Developing Eight (D-8) countries being held in Cairo. Founded in 1997 in Istanbul, the D-8 Organisation for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organisation for development cooperation among Egypt, Nigeria, Turkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iran, and Malaysia. Its objective is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}