{"id":24591,"date":"2025-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/24591\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:17:57","slug":"oman-and-south-africa-discuss-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/24591\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman and South Africa discuss cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/#Khalifa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheikh Khalifa Alharthy Undersecretary for Political Affairs<\/a>, received today at the Foreign Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/dirco.gov.za\/deputy-minister-thandi-moraka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Thandi Moraka, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=936635693  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-79460 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\/South-Africa-2-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\" Oman and South Africa discuss bilateral cooperation\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The meeting discussed cooperation between the Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of South Africa in various fields, including plans to establish a joint economic forum in Muscat.<\/p>\n<p>It also discussed boosting tourism cooperation by facilitating procedures and encouraging initiatives related to the sector.<\/p>\n<p>In an exchange of views on regional issues. Sheikh Khalifa Alharthy, expressed appreciation for South Africa\u2019s firm stance against the genocide being committed against Palestinians as a result of the Israeli occupation forces\u2019 war.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Deputy Minister praised the active role played by the Sultanate of Oman in resolving regional issues through peaceful means.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by Ambassador Saleh Alsuqri, Head of the Africa Department; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ambassador-za-embassy-in-om\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mogobo David Magabe, South African Ambassador<\/a> and several officials from both delegations.<\/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%b3%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%8f%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%86%d9%88%d8%a8-%d8%a3%d9%81%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%ad%d8%ab%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%b9\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting discussed plans to establish a joint economic forum in Muscat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-24591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-south-africa-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24591","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=24591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24593,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24591\/revisions\/24593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}