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G-8 Muslim Developing Countries hold meeting

Kuala Lumpur, July 05, SPA -- High-ranking officials of a group of Eight developing Muslim countries began a meeting today to prepare
the agenda of the Group's Sixth summit.

At a meeting held here today, the officials reviewed the decisions earlier take at their previous meeting held in the Indonesian Bali Island, in addition to the agenda which will be discussed at the Group's upcoming ministerial meeting and its summit.

Malaysia will undertake the chairmanship of the forthcoming summit.

The summit and the Ministerial meeting, scheduled for Kula Lumpur, are expected to be attended by all the Group member states with the exception of Egypt and Nigeria.

The group, set up in 1997, is comprised of Malaysia, Indonesia,
Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Egypt.

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