Moscow: Today, at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik participated alongside President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation in the formal signing of an agreement, a protocol, and nine memoranda of understanding during His Majesty’s state visit to Russia.
These agreements encompassed various sectors, which included a mutual visa exemption arrangement and a protocol for economic and technical collaboration, alongside a proposal for the establishment of a joint economic committee between the governments of Oman and Russia. Furthermore, the memoranda focused on areas such as climate change and sustainable development, transportation and transit, as well as cooperation to fight against money laundering and terrorist financing between Oman’s National Centre for Financial Information and the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia.
Additional memoranda dealt with the collaboration in fisheries between Oman’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources and Russia’s Federal Agency for Fisheries; the exchange of news and information between Oman’s Ministry of Information, represented by the Oman News Agency, and the Rossiya Segodnya media group; diplomatic collaboration involving the Diplomatic Academy of Oman and the Diplomatic Academy of Russia; media partnership between the Ministry of Information and Russia Today TV; the alliance between the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Russia’s Roscongress Foundation; and administrative cooperation between the Royal Academy of Management and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Representing the Omani government, signatures were affixed by Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Qais bin Mohammed Al Yousef, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Investment Promotion; Salim bin Hamood Al Tuwaya, Oman’s Ambassador to Russia; and Colonel Abdulrahman bin Amer Al Kiyoumi, CEO of the National Centre for Financial Information.
On the other hand, representatives from the Russian government included Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister; Maxim Reshetnikov, Minister of Economic Development; Roman Vladimirovich Starovoit, Minister of Transport; and several other officials from Russia.
