{"id":17777,"date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/17777\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:14:48","slug":"diplomatic-academy-hosts-former-british-minister-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/17777\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic Academy hosts former British Minister of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the activities of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/diplomatic-academy-begins-44th-grand-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">44th Grand Diplomatic Course<\/a>, organised and hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/diplomatic-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry&#8217;s Diplomatic Academy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/alan-duncan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Alan Duncan<\/a>, the long serving British politician and former Conservative Minister of State for Europe and the Americas, spoke of his career and close relationship with the Sultanate.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1503991485  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62288 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\/GaaLm2bXgAACdlE-800x534-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Alan Duncan talking at the Diplomatic Academy\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/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\/33ar\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Alan Duncan spoke of his long career and close relationship with the Sultanate.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17777","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\/17777","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=17777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17779,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17777\/revisions\/17779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}