{"id":7980,"date":"2023-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/7980\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T00:00:00","slug":"gcc-foreign-ministers-meet-with-foreign-minister-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/7980\/","title":{"rendered":"GCC Foreign Ministers meet with Foreign Minister of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oman’s Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi<\/a>, chaired the Gulf representation at a meeting held today in Riyadh at the headquarters of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)<\/a> between the Foreign Ministers of the countries of the GCC, the GCC Secretary General and Yoshimasa Hayashi, Foreign Minister of Japan<\/a>,<\/p>\n

In his opening speech, Sayyid Badr spoke of the importance of joint, multilateral, international action in facing global challenges.<\/p>\n

He said he had confidence in the capabilities of the participating countries to take additional steps to strengthen the distinguished relations between the GCC countries and Japan.<\/p>\n

He added that Japan is an important partner and friend and has great influence on the regional and international arenas.<\/p>\n

Oman’s Foreign Minister said he hoped the GCC would continue to expand its deep partnership with Japan, especially in the areas of tourism, energy and technology.<\/p>\n

A statement from the Japanese Foreign Ministry<\/a> said Mr Hayashi spoke of Japan\u2019s vision for a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” (FOIP) which aims to lead the world toward cooperation rather than division and confrontation. To read the full statement click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the meeting, it was agreed to resume negotiations over a free trade agreement between the GCC countries and Japan and a joint action plan for the period 2024-2028 was approved.<\/p>\n

This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text,\u00a0click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The meeting agreed to resume negotiations over a free trade agreement between the GCC countries and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[217,227],"class_list":["post-7980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan","tag-riyadh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980","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=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}