{"id":12891,"date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/12891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:12:42","slug":"political-undersecretary-meets-us-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/12891\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Undersecretary meets US officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/#Khalifa\">Sheikh Khalifa Alharthy, Foreign MInistry Undersecretary for Political Affairs<\/a>, held meetings with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/kurt-m-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Kurt Campbell, US Deputy Secretary of State<\/a> and a number of officials from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Department<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\">White House<\/a>. The meetings took place on the sidelines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/2dw2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second Omani-American Strategic Dialogue<\/a> in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1237134697  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-fusion-800 wp-image-51570\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/662be6413c4c9-800x633-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry for Political Affairs meets with American officials\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the meetings, they discussed aspects of bilateral relations and regional issues, most notably the Palestinian issue. The meetings covered the Omani position demanding an immediate cessation of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, intensifying efforts to bring in humanitarian aid and working to establish an independent Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1045715551  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-fusion-800 wp-image-51515\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-04-24-at-11.21.36-PM-800x600-1.jpeg\" alt=\"The joint statement between the Sultanate of Oman and the United States of America on the occasion of the second strategic dialogue between the Sultanate of Oman and the United States of America\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text,\u00a0click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/0bb9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meetings discussed bilateral relations and regional issues, most notably Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12892,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions\/12892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}