Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Albusaidi has met with a group of ambassadors from non-EU European states, as well as the US, Brazil and Turkiye, Al Jazeera reports.

A second meeting was held with ambassadors from the Gulf Cooperation Council states of Egypt, Iraq and Jordan.

They discussed the “utmost priority of continuing and intensifying political and diplomatic pressures to stop the war” and contain its repercussions, Oman’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

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