A number of ministers of sports and youth in Islamic countries started to arrive in Jeddah for the first Islamic Solidarity Games scheduled to be held in the western region of the Kingdom. They were from Niger, Maldives, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Brunei. They were received at King Abdulaziz International Airport by Prince Nawaf bin Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz, the Deputy President of Youth Welfare, senior government officials and their respective ambassadors to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.