MEXICO CITY: The Islamic Development Bank represents an example of collective self-reliance, the central theme of the current conference on economic cooperation among developing countries, its Executive Director Dr S.A. Meenai said yesterday [Sept 16]. Addressing the conference ... he pointed out that as an international financial institution, the bank has the unique distinction of being an association of developing countries alone. Dr. Meenai, a Pakistani, was the first speal(er when the Group of 77 resumed its general debate yesterday afternoon. ... He told the conference that the Islamic bank, which formally started functioning in October last, hoped to undertake some financing operations in the very first year of its working. News agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Cairo], President Anwar Sadat, 58, the only candidate, was voted back for a second six-year term by an overwhelming 99.9 per cent of the Egyptian electorate ... in a referendum victory reminiscent of that achieved in 1964 by his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He will be officially invested on Oct 16 and elections for Parliament which chose him as the referendum candidate will follow on Oct 23.