{"id":33682,"date":"2025-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/33682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:33:54","slug":"his-majesty-confers-oman-civil-order-on-un-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/33682\/","title":{"rendered":"His Majesty confers Oman Civil Order on UN Secretary General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fm.gov.om\/about-oman\/state\/head-of-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik<\/a> conferred the Oman Civil Order (First Class) upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations (UN)<\/a> during an audience at Al Barakah Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The honour was bestowed in recognition of the Secretary General&#8217;s distinguished diplomatic and political role, as well as his sustained efforts in supporting conflict resolution and advancing international peace and security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: rtl;\"><img data-opt-id=361751589  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103204 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\/693fdb8355b1b-800x561-1.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty confers Oman Civil Order upon UN Secretary General\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UN Secretary General expressed his sincere appreciation for the honour. He also valued Oman\u2019s constructive and wise diplomatic efforts in backing dialogue and mediation, as well as its contribution to conflict resolution regionally and internationally with a spirit of responsibility and cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>He underscored the importance of the continued partnership with Oman to serve stability and peace internationally.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1112915890  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103202 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\/693fdb835ddc4-800x494-1.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty confers Oman Civil Order upon UN Secretary General\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, Foreign Minister;<\/a> Dr Hamad\u00a0 Al Aufi, Head of the Private Office; Hussain Abdullatif, Adviser at the Private Office;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/appointments\/dss\/gilles-michaud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Gilles Michaud UN Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/appointments\/osesgy\/hans-grundberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hans Grundberg, the UN Secretary-General&#8217;s Special Envoy to Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1915447994  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\/693fdb839bcb1-800x586-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103200 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=\"His Majesty confers Oman Civil Order upon UN Secretary General\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" \/><\/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%ac%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9%d9%8f-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%91%d9%8f%d9%84%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8f%d8%b9%d8%b8%d9%85-%d9%8a%d9%85%d9%86%d8%ad-%d9%88%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%8b%d8%a7\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Secretary General valued Oman\u2019s constructive diplomatic efforts in backing dialogue and mediation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[256,356],"class_list":["post-33682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-his-majesty-sultan-haitham-en","tag-un-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682","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=33682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33683,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions\/33683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}