Muscat(Oman), Nov 19 (PTI) India’s engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is entering an “active and strategic phase”, with Oman placing priority on political dialogue, maritime security and new-generation economic cooperation, senior Omani officials have said on Wednesday.

In an exclusive interview with PTI, Shaikh Ahmed bin Hashi Al Maskari, Head of the GCC & Regional Countries Department at Oman’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said recent security developments in West Asia had only strengthened the logic for deeper India-GCC coordination.

“We hosted the Indian Ocean Conference earlier this year and remain very much committed to advancing cooperation between India and the Gulf countries,” Al Maskari said.

He confirmed that a high-level India-Oman political dialogue is sched

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