{"id":29429,"date":"2025-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/29429\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:51:19","slug":"geneva-permanent-representative-meets-wto-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/29429\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva: Permanent Representative meets WTO Director-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/geneva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambassador\u00a0Idris Alkhanjari , Oman\u2019s Permanent Representative in Geneva,<\/a> met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/geneva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=507327021  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-94956 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\/WTO-2-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Geneva: Oman\u2019s Permanent Representative meets WTO Director-General\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the original instrument relating to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/oman-joins-wto-agreement-on-fisheries-subsidies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oman joining the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement was presented<\/a>, reaffirming the country\u2019s commitment to contributing effectively to international efforts to curb harmful subsidies that encourage overfishing and to protect marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Alkhanjari reaffirmed Oman\u2019s determination to safeguard its marine resources and to participate constructively in the second round of fisheries negotiations, while supporting the balanced and inclusive implementation of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Oman had submitted its proposal to join the Fish Fund, which aims to provide technical assistance to developing countries and strengthen cooperation with international institutions such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)<\/a>, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador\u00a0Idris Alkhanjari , Oman\u2019s Permanent Representative in Geneva, met Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization. During the meeting, the original instrument relating to Oman joining the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement was presented, reaffirming the country\u2019s commitment to contributing effectively to international efforts to curb harmful subsidies that encourage overfishing and to protect marine ecosystems. Ambassador Alkhanjari reaffirmed Oman\u2019s &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/29429\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-mission-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29429","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=29429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32908,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29429\/revisions\/32908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}