{"id":28696,"date":"2025-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/28696\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:19:55","slug":"oman-marks-40-years-of-diplomatic-relations-with-russia-in-muscat-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/28696\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman marks 40 years of diplomatic relations with Russia in Muscat celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Ministry, in cooperation with the Russian Embassy in Muscat, organised a celebration to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Sultanate of Oman and the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=567901706  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-93663 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\/Russia-6-800x442-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oman marks 40 years of diplomatic relations with Russia in Muscat celebration\" width=\"800\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In his speech<a href=\"https:\/\/fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/#Khalifa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sheikh Khalifa Alharthy, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary for Political Affairs<\/a>, underlined the strength of the relations between the two countries since the signing of the document establishing them in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Omani signatory of the document was <a href=\"https:\/\/fm.gov.om\/about-oman\/state\/head-of-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik<\/a>, who at that time served as Political Undersecretary at the Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/joint-statement-of-oman-and-russia-on-occasion-of-his-majestys-state-visit-to-russia\/\">His Majesty\u2019s state visit to Russia last April<\/a>, which resulted in agreements and memoranda of understanding that laid the foundation for a growing partnership built on common interests and mutual trust.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1934777070  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-93667 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\/Russia-3-1-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oman marks 40 years of diplomatic relations with Russia in Muscat celebration\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ambassador-ru-embassy-in-om\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oleg Vladimirovich Levin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation Oman<\/a>, said that His Majesty\u2019s visit to Moscow and his talks with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.putin.kremlin.ru\/bio\/page-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Vladimir Putin<\/a> marked a significant milestone in the course of cooperation. He underlined the keenness to further develop this cooperation across various fields to serve common interests and to promote security and stability.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration reaffirmed commitment to continue strengthening cooperation in a way that serves the interests of the two friendly peoples and contributes to supporting security and stability in the region and the world.<\/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\/%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%b8%d9%85-%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%82%d8%b7-%d8%a8%d9%85\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The celebration reaffirmed a commitment to continue strengthening cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28696","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\/28696","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=28696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28697,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28696\/revisions\/28697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}