Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will leave here for Egypt tonight on a two-day state visit to attend D-8 Summit scheduled to be held on December 19.

"A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the chief adviser and his entourage will depart Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 1 am tonight," CA's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said.

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

Talking at a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy here, Azad said apart from Bangladesh, the heads of government of some other countries, including Turkey, Iran, Indonesia and Pakistan, will join the D-8 meet.

He said Chief Adviser Prof Yunus has been focused on youth and that is why he will get scopes to work on youth development at the global forum, claiming that the issues of the conference's theme are important for Bangladesh.

The theme of the D-8 summit reflects its commitment to fostering youth empowerment and promoting small- and medium-size enterprises to drive economic growth and development.

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.