{"id":969,"date":"2024-01-18T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:35:26","slug":"oman-takes-part-in-arab-communications-ministers-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/969\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman takes part in Arab Communications Ministers meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtcit.gov.om\/ITAPortal\/ITA\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology<\/a> represented Oman in the meeting of the 27th session of the Council of Arab Ministers for Communications and Information held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1771116558  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45333 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\/Oman-Participates-in-Meeting-of-Arab-Telecommunication-Ministers-Council-800x435-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oman-Participates-in-Meeting-of-Arab-Telecommunication-Ministers-Council\" width=\"800\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/abu-dhabi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Ahmed bin Hilal Al Busaidi, Oman&#8217;s Ambassador to the UAE<\/a>, headed the delegation.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, the Ambassador outlined how Oman&#8217;s achievements in the sector had contributed to the government&#8217;s economic diversification efforts as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtcit.gov.om\/ITAPortal\/Our_Projects\/Our_Projects_List.aspx?svc=657&amp;NID=120&amp;Odt=37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Program for Digital Economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attendees discussed further Arab cooperation including ways of strengthening cybersecurity systems and making more effective use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>They also addressed the challenges faced by the Palestinian communications sector as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates were briefed on the 2023 Arab Postal Development Report issued by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upu.int\/en\/Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal Postal Union<\/a>\u00a0which highlighted the essential role of the postal sector in the growth of global e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text,\u00a0click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%83-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%80%d9%a2\/?lang=ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1586193433  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45335 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\/Oman-Participates-in-Meeting-of-Arab-Telecommunication-Ministers-Council1-800x405-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Oman-Participates-in-Meeting-of-Arab-Telecommunication-Ministers-Council\" width=\"800\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendees discussed ways of strengthening cybersecurity systems and making more effective use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-uae-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}