{"id":5430,"date":"2023-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/5430\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:30:05","slug":"his-majesty-grants-audience-to-head-of-world-trade-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/5430\/","title":{"rendered":"His Majesty grants audience to head of World Trade Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik\u00a0 gave an audience at Albarakah Palace today to Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty the Sultan welcomed the guest, valuing WTO&#8217;s efforts to streamline global trade and ensure its stability. His Majesty also praised its remarkable role in overcoming the challenges facing the global economy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25606\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/HM-The-Sultan-Gives-Audience-to-WTO-Director-General1-1024x778.jpeg\" alt=\"HM-The-Sultan-Gives-Audience-to-WTO-Director-General\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Director General expressed the WTO\u2019s pride in its distinguished relations with Oman. She commended the open trade and investment policies pursued \u00a0by the Sultanate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25608\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/HM-The-Sultan-Gives-Audience-to-WTO-Director-General-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"HM-The-Sultan-Gives-Audience-to-WTO-Director-General\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The audience was attended by Dr Hamad Said Al Aufi, Head of the Private Office; Qais Mohammed Al Yousef, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion and Dr Eloi Laourou, Senior Adviser to the WTO Director General.<\/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\/p1v5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Majesty praised the WTO&#8217;s efforts to streamline global trade while the WTO Director General commended Oman&#8217;s open trade policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","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=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}