{"id":29389,"date":"2025-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/29389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:20:09","slug":"oman-uk-joint-working-group-convenes-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/29389\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman\u2013UK Joint Working Group convenes in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 17th session of the Oman\u2013UK Joint Working Group was held, in London.<\/p>\n<p>The Omani delegation was chaired by <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>, while the British delegation was headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/hamish-falconer#biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamish Falconer, Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=100583436  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-94615 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\/Uk-2-e1759931340620-800x329-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oman\u2013UK Joint Working Group convenes in London\" width=\"800\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The meeting reviewed various aspects of relations and discussed ways to further strengthen them to achieve desired outcomes. It also discussed prospects for further cooperation between the two countries in the fields of culture, sports, and education and training.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=409533712  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-94617 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\/UK-3-e1759931397453-800x1066-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oman\u2013UK Joint Working Group convenes in London\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the sidelines of the meeting, an agreement on the employment of diplomats\u2019 spouses was signed.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1378141858  data-opt-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\/UK-4-e1759931473875-800x674-1.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-94619 size-fusion-800\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Oman\u2013UK Joint Working Group convenes in London\" width=\"800\" height=\"674\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Badr Mohammed Badr Almantheri, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland<\/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 representatives of government bodies in both countries.<\/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%86%d8%b9%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%8417-%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ac%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting reviewed relations and discussed ways to further strengthen them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[359],"class_list":["post-29389","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\/29389","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=29389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29876,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions\/29876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}