{"id":29463,"date":"2025-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/29463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:36:56","slug":"oman-and-botswana-establish-diplomatic-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/29463\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman and Botswana establish diplomatic relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Botswana signed a joint statement in New York to establish diplomatic relations, building on the cooperation and friendship between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=779075186  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95199 size-fusion-800 aligncenter\" 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\/Oman-Botswana-Diplomatic-relations-4-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Oman Botswana Diplomatic relations\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Statement was signed on behalf of the Government of Oman by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ambassador Omar Alkathiri, Oman\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations<\/a>, and on behalf of the Government of Botswana by <a href=\"https:\/\/press.un.org\/en\/2025\/bio5591.doc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambassador Charles Masole, Botswana\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Alkathiri said that the signing of the joint statement reflects the interest of both governments in establishing diplomatic relations, laying the foundation for enhanced dialogue and opening avenues for cooperation that serve the interests of both countries and their peoples.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Masole said that Botswana\u2019s Government is looking forward to advancing relations between the two 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%b3%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%8f%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%85%d9%87%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The establishment of diplomatic ties reflects the interest of both governments in opening avenues for cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[975],"class_list":["post-29463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-botswana-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29463","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=29463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29906,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29463\/revisions\/29906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}