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Netanyahu talking to sultan Qaboos. (Foto:no credt)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an official visit to Oman, where
he met with Sultan Qaboos Bin Said, his office said Friday. Oman has no
official diplomatic ties with Israel, although a slight warming in
relations followed the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.
Netanyahu
and his wife were invited to visit by the sultan after lengthy contacts
between the two countries, the Prime Minister Office's said in a
statement. The prime minister flew to Oman on Thursday and spent the
night there before returning to Israel. Yje visist came after a visit by the Palestinian presidnet Abbas, who visited Oman eatlier this week
Netanyabhu;'svisit wasn't the first visit by an Israeli leader. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made the
first visit by an Israeli premier to Oman in 1994. In 1996, Rabin's
successor, Shimon Peres, met with the sultan. Oman's foreign minister
visited Israel in 1995. In 2008, then-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met
with Oman's foreign minister.
Joining Netanyahu and
his wife, Sara, were Mossad Director Yossi Cohen; National Security
Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat; Foreign Ministry Director General Yuval
Rotem; Netanyahu Chief of Staff Yoav Horowitz; and Col. Avi Blot,
Netanyahu's military secretary.
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