{"id":17634,"date":"2024-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/17634\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:14:44","slug":"minister-takes-part-in-working-dinner-ahead-of-first-gulf-european-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/17634\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister takes part in working dinner ahead of first Gulf-European Summit"},"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>, participated in a working dinner hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/european-union.europa.eu\/index_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a> in honour of the Foreign Ministers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/policy\/multilateral-relations\/#GCC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulf Cooperation Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61506 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/80c2fe80-a876-4ff4-9e32-f3824923c16b-800x534-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Ministerial working dinner ahead of GCC EU Summit\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61508 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/f8a13e39-821b-4a64-83a8-eb31ef9fd452-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Ministerial working dinner ahead of GCC EU Summit\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event took place in preparation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/meetings\/international-summit\/2024\/10\/16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first Gulf-European Summit<\/a> which is being held today in the Belgian capital, Brussels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61498 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/6b905b81-33ed-45c3-99c1-0383e7e3a9ed-800x559-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Ministerial working dinner ahead of GCC EU Summit\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ministers discussed a range of cooperation topics between the two groups and exchanged views on current issues, particularly the serious escalation in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61500 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/6e89951e-94db-4ce7-ac80-4741b515c06b-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Ministerial working dinner ahead of GCC EU Summit\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They emphasised the centrality of the Palestinian issue in achieving security, stability and peace in accordance with international references and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/meetdocs\/2009_2014\/documents\/empa\/dv\/1_arab-initiative-beirut_\/1_arab-initiative-beirut_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab Peace Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61502 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/7a49adfd-9314-4c64-9f6a-1c63ca8c770f-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Ministerial working dinner ahead of GCC EU Summit\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ministers also addressed the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, stressing the need to continue efforts to secure a ceasefire and uphold international law without double standards while prioritising humanitarian and environmental concerns.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the Summit and what it might achieve please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/gulf-european-summit-present-and-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/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\/%d9%88%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%83-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84-%d8%a8%d9%85%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a8\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministers discussed a range of cooperation topics and exchanged views on current issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17634","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\/17634","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=17634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17636,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17634\/revisions\/17636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}