Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Saudi Arabia)

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
وزارة الخارجية السعودية
	; Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2019
Agency overview
Formed	1930; 94 years ago
Preceding agency	Directorate General for Foreign Affairs;
Jurisdiction	Government of Saudi Arabia
Headquarters	Nasseriya Street, Riyadh
Agency executive	Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Adel al-Jubeir, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs;
Child agency	Prince Saud Al Faisal Institute of Diplomatic Studies;
Website	Official English Site

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA; Arabic: وزارة الخارجية Wizārat al-Khārijīyah) is the ministry responsible for handling the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Foreign affairs. It was created in 1930 by a royal decree issued by King Abdulaziz Al Saud. King Abdulaziz appointed his son, Prince Faisal, as the first foreign minister of Saudi Arabia.^[1]^[2]

Ministers of Foreign Affairs[change | change source]

The following is the list of foreign ministers since its foundation:

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	King
1	Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	19 December 1930	22 December 1960	Abdulaziz (1932–1953) Saud (1953–1964)
2	Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel	22 December 1960	16 March 1962	Saud (1953–1964)
3	Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	16 March 1962	25 March 1975	Saud (1953–1964) Himself (1964–1975)
4	Saud bin Faisal Al Saud	13 October 1975	29 April 2015	Khalid (1975–1982) Fahd (1982–2005) Abdullah (2005–2015) Salman (2015–2015)
5	Adel al-Jubeir	29 April 2015	27 December 2018	Salman (2015–present)
6	Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf	27 December 2018	23 October 2019	Salman (2015–present)
7	Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud^[3]	23 October 2019	Present	Salman (2015–present)