Türkiye to Host 51st OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting in Istanbul

The 51st session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) will be held in Istanbul on June 21-22, under the chairmanship of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

Ahead of the gathering, a Senior Officials Meeting was held in April 27 and 29 at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as part of the preparations for the high-level conference.

Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yilmaz assumed the chairmanship of the Senior Officials Meeting from the head of the Cameroonian delegation. Yilmaz delivered the opening speech, during the Senior Officials meeting, while OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha also addressed the participants.

During the two-day meeting in Jeddah, senior representatives from the 57 member states discussed draft resolutions on various issues, and reviewed reports outlining the OIC’s general policies and principles. The draft resolutions adopted by the senior officials will be presented for approval at the June Council session.

When Türkiye hosts the CFM meeting in Istanbul, it will assume the one-year rotating chairmanship of the OIC — the second-largest intergovernmental organization after the United Nations. Türkiye previously hosted OIC Council of Foreign Ministers meetings in 1976, 1991, and 2004.