{"id":19931,"date":"2024-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/19931\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:15:43","slug":"his-majesty-arrives-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/19931\/","title":{"rendered":"His Majesty arrives in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik arrived in the Kingdom of Belgium this evening, at the start of a three day state visit.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=741452685  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66394 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\/674e051b2ea3d-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Fighter escort as His Majesty arrives in Belgium\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the Royal Airplane entered Belgian airspace, it was escorted by two Belgian military aircraft, in a show of welcome for His Majesty.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=532531284  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66367 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\/His-Majesty-arrives-in-Belgium-2-800x779-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646 \u0647\u064a\u062b\u0645 \u064a\u0635\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0643\u0627\" width=\"800\" height=\"779\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upon the arrival of His Majesty at Brussels Military Airport, His Majesty was received by Tinne Van der Straeten, Minister of Energy.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1326309881  data-opt-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\/His-Majesty-arrives-in-Belgium-3-800x786-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66369 size-fusion-800\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646 \u0647\u064a\u062b\u0645 \u064a\u0635\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0643\u0627\" width=\"800\" height=\"786\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His Majesty was also welcomed by Rua Issa Ashraf Alzadjali, Oman&#8217;s Ambassador to Belgium and staff from the Omani Embassy in \u00a0Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty then passed between two rows of the Belgian Royal Guard of Honour before shaking hands with senior Belgian officials and military personnel who welcomed him and his accompanying delegation, wishing them a pleasant stay.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=822186166  data-opt-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\/674e051b7208f-800x533-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66395 size-fusion-800\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646 \u0647\u064a\u062b\u0645 \u064a\u0635\u0644 \u0628\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0643\u0627\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The motorcade of His Majesty, surrounded by a group of motorcycle outriders, then left Brussels Military Airport heading to the Castle of Laeken.<\/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\/hmdp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Majesty is beginning a three day state visit to the Kingdom of Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[216,256],"class_list":["post-19931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-belgium-en","tag-his-majesty-sultan-haitham-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931","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=19931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19933,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions\/19933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}