{"id":24770,"date":"2025-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/24770\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:18:09","slug":"oman-takes-part-in-indian-ocean-rim-association-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/24770\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman takes part in Indian Ocean Rim Association meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultanate of Oman took part via video conference in the 24th Ministerial Meeting and Senior Officials&#8217; Meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iora.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Omani delegation was led by Ambassador Dr Afkar Alfarsi, Head of the Ministry&#8217;s Department of International Trade, Knowledge Economy and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>In his address to the meeting, he reaffirmed Oman&#8217;s commitment to strengthening regional cooperation frameworks in the Indian Ocean region. Dr Alfarsi pointed to Oman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/8th-indian-ocean-conference-opens-in-oman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosting of the 8th Indian Ocean Conference in February 2025<\/a> as evidence of this commitment.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke of the importance of balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability amid growing global challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Agricultural, Fisheries and Water Resources.<\/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-%d8%aa%d9%8f%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%83-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1-3\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oman affirmed its commitment to strengthening cooperation in the Indian Ocean region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770","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=24770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33265,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770\/revisions\/33265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}