{"id":24675,"date":"2025-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/24675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:59:47","slug":"oman-showcases-economic-diplomacy-at-13th-annual-china-round-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/24675\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman showcases economic diplomacy at 13th Annual China Round Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">Ambassador Dr Afkar bin Nazim Al Farsi, Head of the Foreign Ministry&#8217;s Department of International Trade, Knowledge Economy and Technology, took part in a special event titled \u201cOman\u2019s Economic Diplomacy: Leveraging Trade for Regional Prosperity\u201d as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/thewto_e\/acc_e\/acc_12052025_e\/acc_12052025_e.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">13th China Round Table (CRT)<\/a>. This session was hosted by the Sultanate of Oman on China\u2019s accession to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/policy\/multilateral-relations\/#WTO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Trade Organisation (WTO)<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1680741985  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80966 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\/PHOTO-2025-05-14-14-36-33-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oman showcases economic diplomacy at 13th Annual China Round Table\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"350\"><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">The <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">event <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">discussed <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">the <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">current <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">challenges <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">facing <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">the <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">multilateral <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">trading <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"350\"><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">It <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">also <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">reviewed <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">Oman\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">strategic <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">approach <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">to <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">utilising <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">economic <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">diplomacy in strengthening<\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">its <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">engagement <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">with <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">the <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">World <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">Trade <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">Organisation, <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">developing <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">regional <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">and <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">international <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">partnerships, <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">and <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">promoting <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">sustainable <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">growth <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">and <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">economic <\/span><span class=\"_fadeIn_m1hgl_8\">diversification.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The session discussed the current challenges facing the multilateral trading system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-trade-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675","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=24675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24677,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24675\/revisions\/24677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}