{"id":12903,"date":"2024-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/12903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:12:43","slug":"foreign-minister-at-gcc-us-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/12903\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister at GCC US meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oman&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi<\/a> took part in a joint ministerial meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the countries of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/policy\/multilateral-relations\/#GCC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/antony-j-blinken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State<\/a>. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the GCC Secretariat General in the Saudi capital, Riyadh and was also attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/gcc-sg.org\/en-us\/GeneralSecretariat\/Generalsecretary\/Pages\/Current.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi, Secretary-General of the GCC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meeting discussed Gulf-American relations and cooperation in the political and economic fields.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=508561730  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51725 size-fusion-800\" 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\/PHOTO-2024-04-29-13-56-39-800x554-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was also consultation and an exchange of views on regional and international issues of mutual interest. This reflects a keenness to support all efforts to reach peaceful solutions to various issues and crises, so contributing to the restoration of security and stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting focused on continuing efforts to secure an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and to reach a permanent, just and peaceful solution to the Palestinian issue based on a two-state solution according to international resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by Sayyid Faisal bin Turki Al Said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/riyadh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oman&#8217;s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,<\/a> along with Najib bin Hilal Albusaidi, Deputy Head of the GCC Affairs and Regional Cooperation Department, as well as officials from the Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/8ucd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/badralbusaidi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, Sayyid Badr said the talks were &#8220;important&#8221; \u00a0describing a ceasefire in Gaza and the delivery of humanitarian relief as prerequisites for deescalation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must return to a path of justice for the Palestinians, and statehood on the basis of two states and UNSC resolutions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting discussed continuing efforts to secure an immediate ceasefire \u00a0in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12903","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\/12903","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=12903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12904,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions\/12904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}