Muscat: Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, Foreign Minister, today held telephonic conversations with counterparts in Arab and friendly countries, including Ayman Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway; Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in the United Kingdom; and Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy-Vice President of the European Commission.
According to Oman News Agency, the telephonic conversations dealt with the serious developments in the region. The officials exchanged views about ways to contain the escalation. They urged the parties concerned to exercise restraint and revert back to dialogue and diplomacy as means of resolving the ongoing conflict between the United States and Israel, on one hand, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the other hand.