President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to visit Malaysia to attend the 6th Developing Eight (D-8) Summit July 6-8, and a Group of Eight (G8+8) in Toyako, Hokkaido, in Japan, on July 8-10, 2008."President Yudhoyono by the end of this week will be leaving for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Hokkaido, Japan," Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal at the Presidential Office in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Dino said that at the D-8 meeting President Yudhoyono will hand over the D-8 chairmanship to Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi.
D-8 was established in June 1997 by eight Organisation of Islamic Conferent (OKI) member countries sharing development and population characteristics, namely Bangladesh, RI, Iran, Malaysia, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey, to promote economic cooperation and development especially in agriculture, industry, energy, and trade.
The Indonesian government held the D-8 chairmanship since May 2006 at the 5th summit in Bali, while the D-8 secretary general was Dr. Dipo Alam.
"Under Indonesia`s chairmanship, 31 activities had been carried out, including 15 by Indonesia covering cooperation in trade, micro-finance, energy, tourism, civil aviation, and healthcare," he said.
Dino also said that during the Indonesian chairmansip, agreement was reached on rules of origin as a precondition for the realization of a D-8 preferrential trade agreement as the result of the Bali summit.
"Discussions will also cover a roadmap of D-8 for the next ten years -- economic cooperation roadmap in the second decade of cooperation (2008-2012)," he said.
President Yudhoyono is also slated to have a bilateral meeting with PM Badawi and Malaysian business community.
Later the President is also scheduled to attend a summit of G-8 Outreach Countries at Windsor Hotel in Toyako, Hokkaido.
"This forum had been proposed by France and the United Kindgom," he said..
Dino explained that as host of G-8, Japan decided to invite eight other countries who are members of D-8 (Canada, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States) namely Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, Indonesia, Australia and South Korea.
"Actually in 2007 at the G-8 summit in Helligendamm, Germany, they held a meeting with five countries, but this year host Japan invited three additional countries Indonesia , Australia, and South Korea, so that its name changed from G8+5 into G8+8," he said.
The meeting, he added, will discuss several important world issues, namely climate change, food security, and global economic development and growth.
At the summit, President Yudhoyono is also slated to become a key speaker dealing with issues on food security and meet Japanese businessmen.
source: Antara | July 2008
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