{"id":35611,"date":"2026-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/35611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:32:57","slug":"minister-meets-us-under-secretary-of-state-for-political-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/35611\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister meets US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi<\/a> received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/biographies\/allison-hooker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allison Hooker, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs,<\/a> as part of her official visit to take part in the third round of the Strategic Dialogue between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=815977859  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107068 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\/USA-2-800x534-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Minister meets US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The meeting explored prospects for strengthening bilateral cooperation across political and economic fields. The focus was on encouraging US investment in the Sultanate of Oman\u2019s priority sectors, including renewable energy, space and education. This would support the long term strategic partnership between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1570968864  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107070 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\/USA-3-800x694-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Minister meets US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The meeting also witnessed an exchange of views on regional and international developments, highlighting the importance of strengthening coordination and consultation to support efforts aimed at security, stability and peace.<\/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\/%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%af-%d9%88%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%82%d9%8a-%d9%88%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%84%d8%a9\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting explored prospects for strengthening bilateral cooperation across the political and economic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-35611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-united-states-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35613,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35611\/revisions\/35613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}