{"id":22246,"date":"2025-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/22246\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:16:52","slug":"minister-visits-astana-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/22246\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister visits Astana in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi<\/a> visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/aifc.kz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astana International Financial Centre<\/a> as part of his official visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister considered the role of the Financial Centre in enhancing the investment and financial sectors in line with international standards, and discussed opportunities for cooperation between the Sultanate of Oman and Kazakhstan in these areas. He confirmed the importance of exchanging expertise to support shared economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1206247375  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73405\" 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\/PHOTO-2025-02-25-19-42-41-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Minister visits Astana in Kazakhstan\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=704116137  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73399\" 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\/PHOTO-2025-02-25-19-42-41-2-800x548-1.jpg\" alt=\"Minister visits Astana in Kazakhstan\" width=\"900\" height=\"616\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minister also visited <a href=\"https:\/\/astanaopera.kz\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astana Opera<\/a>, one of the capital&#8217;s most prominent cultural landmarks. He appreciated its facilities, artistic potential and role in enhancing the cultural and artistic scene.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1795095431  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\/PHOTO-2025-02-25-20-00-44-1-800x533-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73395\" 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=\"Minister visits Astana in Kazakhstan\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=211069831  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\/PHOTO-2025-02-25-20-00-44-5-800x509-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73385\" 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=\"Minister visits Astana in Kazakhstan\" width=\"900\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sayyid Badr also took the opportunity to see <a href=\"https:\/\/astanahub.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astana Hub<\/a>, the largest international technology centre for start-up companies in Central Asia. He was given a presentation on the projects and technological innovations of the Hub and its role in supporting entrepreneurship and technological cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>These Astana visits are intended to enhance cooperation between the Sultanate of Oman and Kazakhstan in the economic, cultural and technological fields. They also seek to explore promising opportunities in finance, arts and digital innovation.<\/p>\n<p>A number of officials from Oman and Kazakhstan accompanied the Foreign Minister during the visits.<\/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\/\u0645\u0639\u0627\u0644\u064a-\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u062f-\u0648\u0632\u064a\u0631-\u0627\u0644\u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c\u064a\u0629-\u064a\u0632\u0648\u0631-\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632-\u0623\u0633\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=118233496  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\/PHOTO-2025-02-25-20-00-44-800x533-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73401\" 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=\"Minister visits Astana in Kazakhstan\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=785559112  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\/PHOTO-2025-02-25-20-00-44-4-800x533-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-73387\" 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=\"Minister visits Astana in Kazakhstan\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Minister visited the Astana International Financial Centre, Astana Opera and Astana Hub technology centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-22246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-kazakhstan-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22246","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=22246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22427,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22246\/revisions\/22427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}