{"id":23846,"date":"2025-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/23846\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:46:50","slug":"his-majesty-leaves-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/23846\/","title":{"rendered":"His Majesty leaves for Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fm.gov.om\/about-oman\/state\/head-of-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik<\/a> left Oman today heading to the Russian Federation on a two-day state visit.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, His Majesty will meet with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.putin.kremlin.ru\/bio\/page-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1578814905  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77761 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\/Departure-2-800x1003-1.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty leaves for Russia\" width=\"800\" height=\"1003\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The visit, made in response to an invitation by the Russian President, underlines the advanced relations between Oman and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty was seen off at the Royal Airport by Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers; Sayyid Asaad bin Tarik Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations and Cooperation Affairs and Special Representative of the Sultan; Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said, Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth; Sheikh Abdulmalik bin Abdullah Al Khalili, Chairman of the State Council; Khalid bin Hilal Al Maawali, Chairman of the Shura Council; Sayyid Hamood bin Faisal Al Busaidi, Minister of Interior; Sayyid Mohammed bin Sultan Al Busaidi, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council; Nasr bin Hamoud Al Kindi, Secretary General of the Royal Court Affairs; Dr Madiha bint Ahmed Al Shibaniyah, Minister of Education; Sheikh Al Fadhl bin Mohammed Al Harthy, Secretary General of the Council of Ministers; Lieutenant General Hassan bin Mohsen Al Shraiqi, Inspector General of Police and Customs; Lieutenant General Said bin Ali Al Hilali, Head of the Internal Security Service; Vice Admiral Abdullah bin Khamis Al Raisi, Chief of Staff of the Sultan\u2019s Armed Forces; Major General Matar bin Salim Al Balushi, Commander of the Royal Army of Oman; Air Vice Marshal Khamis bin Hammad Al Ghafri, Commander of the Royal Air Force of Oman; Rear Admiral Saif bin Nasser Al Rahbi, Commander of the Royal Navy of Oman; and Major General Musallam bin Mohammed Taman Jaaboub, Commander of the Sultan\u2019s Special Force.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1779146808  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77759 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\/Depatrure1-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty leaves for Russia\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Accompanying His Majesty on his visit is a high level official delegation comprising: Sayyid Shihab bin Tarik Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for Defence Affairs; Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal Al Busaidi, Minister of Diwan of Royal Court; Lieutenant General Sultan bin Mohammed Al Nomani, Minister of the Royal Office; Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, Foreign Minister; Dr Hamad bin Said Al Aufi, Head of the Special Office; Abdulsalam bin Mohammed Al Murshidi, President of the Oman Investment Authority; Qais bin Mohammed Al Yousef, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion; Jamal bin Hassan Al Moosawi, Secretary General of the National Museum; and Hamood bin Salim bin Abdullah Altowaiya, Oman\u2019s Ambassador to the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1463897499  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\/Russia-3-e1745245949407-800x533-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77739 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 leaves for Russia\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1119612005  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\/Departure-3-800x533-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-77763 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 leaves for Russia\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/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\/%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%b8%d9%85-%d9%8a%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%87-%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%a7\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the visit, His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik will meet President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[324,329],"class_list":["post-23846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-russia-en","tag-his-highness-sayyid-theyazin-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846","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=23846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23851,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions\/23851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}