{"id":15771,"date":"2024-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/15771\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:13:43","slug":"foreign-minister-receives-call-from-us-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/15771\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister receives call from US Secretary of State"},"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> received a telephone call from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/antony-j-blinken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Blinken offered the United States&#8217; sincere condolences to Oman over the death of a security officer and several civilians following the shooting incident near a mosque in the Al Wadi Al Kabir area of Muscat.<\/p>\n<p>He affirmed his country&#8217;s support for the measures taken by the Omani authorities to contain the situation and deal with the perpetrators. Mr Blinken also expressed the United States&#8217; condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and causes.<\/p>\n<p>The two Ministers also discussed the latest efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and attempts to de-escalate tensions in the region. They reaffirmed their shared commitment to a two-state solution and the achievement of a just and lasting peace, calling on all parties to exercise restraint and adhere to the law.<\/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\/4s5l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministers discussed recent developments and the latest efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[251,360],"class_list":["post-15771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-gaza-en","tag-united-states-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771","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=15771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33053,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions\/33053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}