Monday 18 / May / 2026
Muscat: Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, Foreign Minister, held a telephone conversation today with Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India.
During the call, the two ministers discussed areas of bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on the current regional situation amid disrupted maritime navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, stressing the need to intensify diplomatic efforts to ease tensions and find lasting, sustainable solutions to the crisis.
Separately, the Foreign Minister received an evening call from Beate Meinl‑Reisinger, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria.
The two sides discussed developments and repercussions of the regional and global situation. Both sides affirmed the need to continue and intensify diplomatic efforts to achieve a breakthrough, allow the flow of maritime supply chains, and ensure freedom of navigation in line with international law. This requires the concerned parties to show flexibility and make the necessary concessions to reach sustainable solutions that spare the region and the world from the spectre of war and armed conflict.
