TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday that later in the day Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would leave Tehran for Turkey to attend a ministerial meeting of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation.

The foreign minister will leave Tehran for Turkey later on Friday at the top of a delegation to take part in the D-8 ministerial meeting, Qassemi said.

The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organization for development co-operation among Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey.

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