{"id":304675,"date":"2025-07-30T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304675\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:26:13","slug":"uks-starmer-omans-sultan-agree-to-deepen-ties-in-energy-defence-and-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304675\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Starmer, Oman&#8217;s sultan agree to deepen ties in energy, defence and tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Oman&#8217;s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said agreed on Wednesday to deepen collaboration across energy, technology, defence and security, a Downing Street spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">During talks in London where the leaders also discussed the ongoing UK-Gulf Cooperation Council trade negotiations, the leaders called for urgent humanitarian aid to reach Gaza, saying the current situation &#8220;cannot continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;The Prime Minister updated His Majesty on his conversations with other leaders in recent days, and both agreed on the need for a longer-term peace plan, which includes a pathway to recognition,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Starmer announced on Tuesday that Britain would recognise a Palestine state in September unless Israel took steps to improve the situation in Gaza and bring about peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">On Iran, Starmer thanked the sultan for Oman&#8217;s continued efforts to help reach a diplomatic solution and avoid a return to conflict in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Sam Tabahriti; Editing by Daniel Wallis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Oman&#8217;s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said agreed on Wednesday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,49078,12190,393,4884,807,1144,6858,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-304675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-british-prime-minister","11":"tag-downing-street","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-oman","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114943831824297421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}