Fayza Abul Naga, the Minister of International Cooperation presides over the Egyptian delegation which is taking part in the sixth summit of the D-8 in Kuala Lumpur.

Minister Abul-Naga will convey a message from President Mubarak to Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawy.

The summit will discuss food crisis, energy, developing human resources and combating poverty.

D-8 was set up in 1997 as an economic alliance with the objective of improving the position of Muslim developing countries in the global world economy through the diversification of their economies by creating new opportunities via increased trade relations to improve the standard of living of their peoples.

The last summit was hosted by Indonesia, the current chairman of D-8, in Bali, Indonesia on 13th of May 2006.

The summit is held once every two years. Egypt is in charge of coordination in the field of trade in the group.