{"id":19982,"date":"2024-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/19982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:15:46","slug":"his-majesty-visits-brussels-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/19982\/","title":{"rendered":"His Majesty visits Brussels City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, accompanied by an official delegation, visited Brussels City Hall in the Kingdom of Belgium, accompanied by King Philippe, King of the Belgians.<\/p>\n<p>The visit took place as part of His Majesty&#8217;s state visit to Belgium.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=353179143  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66524 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\/674fe92b57031-800x966-1.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty visits Brussels City Hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"966\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upon His Majesty&#8217;s arrival, he was received by Philippe Close, the Mayor of Brussels. His Majesty then toured the historic building, renowned for its unique 15th Century gothic architectural design.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1859824494  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66520 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\/674fe92b5fb61-800x590-1.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty visits Brussels City Hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children of staff from the Omani Embassy in Brussels, along with members of GCC and Arab delegations, as well as attendees from Belgium and various nationalities, warmly welcomed His Majesty.<\/p>\n<p>Holding flags of Oman and Belgium, they gathered outside the City Hall, where His Majesty and King Philippe greeted them from the balcony overlooking the square.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1536340934  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\/674fe92b68b07-800x533-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66522 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=\"His Majesty visits Brussels City Hall\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the visit, His Majesty wrote in the guestbook, expressing his pleasure at seeing the historic building and describing it as an ancient architectural masterpiece that reflects the rich heritage of Belgium.<\/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\/tvkx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visit took place during His Majesty&#8217;s state visit to Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19983,"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-19982","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\/19982","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=19982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19984,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions\/19984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}