{"id":10821,"date":"2023-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/10821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:25:15","slug":"united-states-embassy-holds-national-day-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/10821\/","title":{"rendered":"United States: Embassy holds National Day reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.ofm-archive.com\/washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moosa Hamdan Al Tai, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the United States of America,<\/a> hosted a reception on the occasion of the fifty-third National Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador delivered a speech in which he spoke of the renaissance witnessed by the Sultanate of Oman under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, highlighting the achievements and gains that place Oman in the ranks of developed countries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40395 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/\/\u0627\u0645\u0631\u064a\u0643\u0627-2.jpeg\" alt=\"National-Day-Celebration-53-Embassy-of-the-Sultanate-in-America\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador praised the long-standing, strategic relations between Oman and the United States. He noted the existing cooperation between Oman and the United States in various fields, stressing the Embassy\u2019s commitment to enhance trade cooperation and benefit from the free trade agreement between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Al Tai \u00a0also spoke about the need for a ceasefire in Gaza and ending the violence and injustice against the Palestinian people, stressing the importance of respecting international resolutions and international humanitarian law, as well as respecting the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40398 size-fusion-600\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u0627\u0645\u0631\u064a\u0643\u0627-3-e1700998498716.jpeg\" alt=\"National-Day-Celebration-53-Embassy-of-the-Sultanate-in-America\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Lenderking, the US special envoy to Yemen, delivered a speech in which he praised the pioneering Omani role in establishing security and stability in Yemen and the Middle East region. He also spoke about the growth of Omani-American relations and the doubling of trade between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40393 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u0627\u0645\u0631\u064a\u0643\u0627-1.jpg\" alt=\"National-Day-Celebration-53-Embassy-of-the-Sultanate-in-America\" width=\"798\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event programme also included a visual presentation about the Sultanate of Oman and its development in various fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moosa Hamdan Al Tai, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the United States of America, hosted a reception on the occasion of the fifty-third National Day. The Ambassador delivered a speech in which he spoke of the renaissance witnessed by the Sultanate of Oman under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, highlighting the achievements and gains &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/10821\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[220,224,218,150,223],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mission-news","tag-gaza","tag-his-majesty-sultan-haitham","tag-palestine","tag-united-states","tag-yemen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10826,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions\/10826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}