Sultan Qaboos oppoints a woman ambassador to Washington

Sultan of Oman, Qaboos Bin Said, on Tuesday appointed for the first time a woman in the post of the Ambassador for the Sultanate to the USA.

The Sultan's decree stated to offer Hanina Bint Sultan Bin Ahmad al-Maghiri the grade of an ambassador and appoint her as a commissioned ambassador to the USA.

Worthy mentioning that Hanina is the second female ambassador in the history of the Omani diplomacy. Khadeija al-Lawani was appointed as an ambassador for the Kingdom in Holland in 1999. Worthy mentioning that the new Omani ambassador is the wife of the ambassador of the Sultanate to the UN, Fouad Bin Mubarak al- Hana'e.