Mottaki stresses economic cooperation among D8 states

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Monday that Iran attaches special importance to economic, scientific and technical cooperation among member states of the D8 group.

Mottaki who arrived in the Malaysian capital city on Sunday, made the remarks while addressing the 12th ministerial meeting of the D8 group.

Referring to the global economic crisis, he called for appropriate measures to reduce the economic and social consequences of such a crisis in the D8 member states.

On great potentials existing in all D8 countries, Mottaki stressed that they can play a constructive and effective role in founding the economic and monetary structure of world countries.

As to efforts made by the Islamic Republic of Iran to help establish an investment fund among the D8 member states, he expressed hope that the project would become materialized in the near future.

He voiced Iran’s readiness to provide the fund with dlrs 20 million as its primary asset.

The Iranian foreign minister also called for greater roles to be played by private sectors of the member states in various economic projects.

D8 group comprises of eight developing Islamic countries, namely Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt and Nigeria.

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