{"id":29375,"date":"2025-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/29375\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:20:06","slug":"the-british-omani-society-holds-its-annual-lunch-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/29375\/","title":{"rendered":"The British Omani Society holds its annual lunch in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishomani.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The British Omani Society<\/a> held its annual lunch in, London, with <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>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/hamish-falconer#biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamish Falconer, Parliamentary Under Secretary at the UK&#8217;s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office,<\/a> as guests of honour.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Sheikh Khalifa commended the distinguished and long-standing relations between Oman and the United Kingdom, affirming both countries\u2019 commitment to further strengthening cooperation across various fields.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed his appreciation to the members of the British Omani Society for their continued efforts in fostering the bonds of friendship between the two friendly countries.<\/p>\n<p>The British Minister expressed his pride in the strength of Omani British relations, praising\u00a0Oman\u2019s balanced foreign policy and its constructive and significant role in addressing regional issues.<\/p>\n<p>The lunch was attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Badr Mohammed Badr Almantheri, Oman\u2019s Ambassador to the United Kingdom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ambassador-gb-embassy-in-om\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Liane Saunders, the UK\u2019s Ambassador to Oman<\/a>, and more than 100 members and guests of the British Omani Society.<\/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%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%85-%d9%85%d8%a3%d8%af-2\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Khalifa commended the distinguished relations between Oman and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-29375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-united-kingdom-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375","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=29375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29870,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions\/29870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}