{"id":32263,"date":"2025-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/32263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:21:26","slug":"oman-and-australia-hold-political-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/32263\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman and Australia hold political talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first session of political consultations between the Sultanate of Oman and Australia was held at the Foreign Ministry in Muscat.<\/p>\n<p>The Omani delegation was led by Ambassador Sheikh Abdulaziz Alhousni, Director of the Ministry&#8217;s Asia and Pacific Department. The Australian delegation was headed by Paul Griffiths, Assistant Secretary for Middle East and Africa at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=2042732097  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102496 size-fusion-1200\" 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\/Australia-3-1-scaled-e1765473289266-1200x398-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Oman and Australia hold political talks\" width=\"1200\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The session reviewed relations between the two countries and discussed strengthening existing cooperation, particularly in the economic, investment and cultural fields.<\/p>\n<p>The delegations also exchanged views on regional issues of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=898279547  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102494 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\/Australia-2-1-800x346-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Oman and Australia hold political talks\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The session was attended from the Australian delegation by Miles Armitage, Australia\u2019s non resident Ambassador to Oman, along with officials from 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%b3%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%8f%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%82%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%a7\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The session reviewed relations between the two countries and discussed strengthening cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-32263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-australia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263","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=32263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32264,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263\/revisions\/32264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}