{"id":9717,"date":"2023-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/9717\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:59:43","slug":"political-undersecretary-meets-european-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/9717\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Undersecretary meets European Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the sidelines of the 27th meeting of the Joint GCC-EU Ministerial Council in Muscat <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.ofm-archive.com\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/#Khalifa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheikh Khalifa Ali Al Harthy, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary for Political Affairs<\/a> held meetings with European Foreign Ministers, Ambassadors and officials.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Khalifa met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.lv\/en\/department\/unsc-task-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrejs Pildegovi\u010ds, Ambassador at large for International Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia \u00a0<\/a>to review relations between Latvia and Oman and to discuss furthering cooperation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sheikh-Khalifa-meets-Undersecretary-of-State-fo-Foreign-and-Security-Policy-of-Finland-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Sheikh-Khalifa-meets-Undersecretary-of-State-fo- Foreign-and-Security-Policy-of Finland\" width=\"591\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Political Undersecretary also met with Outi Holopainen, <a href=\"https:\/\/um.fi\/news\/-\/asset_publisher\/GRSnUwaHDPv5\/content\/outi-holopainen-ulko-ja-turvallisuuspolitiikasta-vastaavaksi-alivaltiosihteeriksi\/35732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undersecretary of State for Foreign and Security Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meeting reviewed relations between the two countries and discussed cooperation and how to further it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36622 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sheikh-Khalifa-meets-German-Foreign-Minister-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Sheikh-Khalifa-meets-German-Foreign-Minister\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Khalifa Al Harthy also met with Dr Tobias Lindner, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting reviewed relations between Oman and Germany and discussed furthering cooperation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36620 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sheikh-Khalifa-meets-Minister-Delegate-for-Foreign-Trade-Economic-Attractiveness-and-French-Nationals-Abroad-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Sheikh-Khalifa-meets-Minister-Delegate-for-Foreign-Trade-Economic-Attractiveness-and-French-Nationals-Abroad\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Khalifa Al Harthy also met with Olivier Bechet, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad to\u00a0review bilateral relations and to discuss aspects of furthering cooperation.<\/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\/lkpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meetings took place on the sidelines of the Joint GCC-EU Ministerial Council meeting in Muscat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[242,208,297,230,246],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-finland","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-latvia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717","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=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9725,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions\/9725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}