Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid a visit to Saudi Arabia on 20-21 January 2016 to participate in the Extraordinary Meeting of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers meeting, which was convened upon the request of Saudi Arabia.

In the meeting recent developments in the Middle East as well as regional and international issues of close concern to the Islamic World were reviewed. In the margins of the said meeting, Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu held bilateral talks with Foreign Ministers of Yemen, Indonesia, Maldives, Qatar and Saudi Arabia during which bilateral relations, regional developments and cooperation issues were discussed.