Dhaka: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe formally has invited his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina to attend the outreach meeting of G-7 scheduled to be held on May 27 in Japan, UNB reported on Friday quoting a release from PM’s Press Wing.

A total of seven countries, including Bangladesh, will participate in the meeting. The other countries are Laos PDR, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guniea and Chand.

Besides, UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, OECD secretary general Angel Gurría, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Takehiko Nakao and International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing Director

Christine Lagarde will also attend the meeting, the release said.