CA to deliver speech at Al-Azhar University tomorrow
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will deliver a speech at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, tomorrow as he is now on a two-day tour there to attend the D-8 Summit.
"The chief adviser is scheduled to deliver an address at Al-Azhar University on December 19," his Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS.
Prof Yunus will address the Egyptian university as part of an invitation from Al-Azhar Al Sharif's Grand Imam Ahmed Eltayeb.
The Grand Imam invited the Bangladesh chief adviser to deliver an address at Al-Azhar University as he called on him at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the Azerbaijan capital Baku on 12 November.
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During the tour, the chief adviser will join the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation known as the Developing-8 summit in Egypt's capital scheduled to be held on December 19.
On the sidelines of the summit, he is likely to hold bilateral meetings with the heads of the government of some D-8 member states, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the deputy press secretary.
