{"id":11326,"date":"2023-12-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/11326\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:26:44","slug":"foreign-minister-welcomes-gcc-korea-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/11326\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister welcomes GCC Korea trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.ofm-archive.com\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oman&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr<\/a>, has welcomed the signing of a free trade agreement between the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Republic of South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement represents a significant step towards achieving Gulf economic integration and strengthening economic and trade relations between the GCC and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In a comment on X (formerly Twitter), Sayyid Badr said the agreement draws a comprehensive plan to enhance trade and investment in all areas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44440\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/GCbLHjabsAAM5j4-e1704027102433.jpeg\" alt=\"His Excellency the Ambassador participates in the signing ceremony of the Free Trade Agreement\" width=\"781\" height=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The agreement was signed by Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi, <a href=\"https:\/\/gcc-sg.org\/en-us\/GeneralSecretariat\/Generalsecretary\/Pages\/Current.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council<\/a> and Dukgeun Ahn, Korean Minister of Trade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.ofm-archive.com\/seoul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oman&#8217;s Ambassador to Korea, Zakariya Hamed Hilal Alsaadi<\/a>, participated in the signing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text,\u00a0click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.ofm-archive.com\/40oz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement is a significant step in strengthening economic and trade relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[274,162],"class_list":["post-11326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-singapore","tag-south-korea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326","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=11326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11329,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11326\/revisions\/11329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}