OMAN: NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR

UNCLAS MUSCAT 002278

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR S/ES-O, NEA/ARPI

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL PINR MU
SUBJECT: OMAN: NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR
LEADING GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL OFFICIALS

REF: STATE 271552

Per reftel, Embassy Muscat submits the following information:

COUNTRY: Sultanate of Oman
DATE OF SUBMISSION: December 26, 2004

HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND STATE
Last Name: al-Said
First/Middle Names: Qaboos bin Said
Conventional Usage: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos
Formal Title: Sultan
Office Phone Numbers: Not available
After-Hours Telephone Numbers: Not available
Residence Phone Numbers: Not available
Cell Phone Numbers: Not available
Comments: All contact with the Sultan is done via the Royal
Diwan via the Chief of Protocol, His Excellency Juma'a bin
Rashid bin Sa'id al-Balushi. However, the preferred manner
of contacting Sultan Qaboos is for the Operations Center to
contact Embassy Muscat's Executive Office. The Executive
Office will contact the Diwan. The Diwan will then contact
the Operations Center or the Sultan himself will telephone
the Operations Center. Sultan Qaboos speaks excellent
English; there is never a need for an interpreter.


FOREIGN MINISTER
Last Name: Abdullah
First/Middle Names: Yusuf bin Alawi bin
Conventional Usage: His Excellency Yusuf bin Alawi
Formal Title: Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs
Office Telephone Numbers: (968) 699-532
After-Hours Telephone Numbers: Not available
Residence Telephone Numbers: (968) 697-994
Cell Phone Numbers: (968) 933-3383
Comments: The Minister's First Assistant is Mr. Khalfan
Habib, who can be reached after business hours on his cell
phone: (968) 931-6677. The listed office number could also
be answered by Mr. Mohammed Najeb or Mr. Khalifa al-Hassini,
the Minister's second and third assistants. Yusuf bin Alawi
speaks excellent English; there is never a need for an
interpreter.



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