King Willem-Alexander and Dutch minister Stef Blok, from Foreign Affairs to bring to Sunday’s visit to Oman to get sympathy upon the death of the sultan, Qaboos Bin Said. last Friday. The 79-year-old Qaboos was almost a half-century on the throne of the oliestaat.
The sultan of morocco, was never married and had no children. He was succeeded by his cousin, Haitham Bin Tareq Al Saeed, (65). Receiving, from the Sunday world, the royal palace, in the capital city of Muscat, during the three days of national mourning.
you can go To islamic practice was the burial of Qaboos on Friday instead. Are begrafenisprocessie was held in Muscat, followed by a ceremony to be held in one of the following-named great mosque of the city. Later, Qaboos was buried in the familiekerkhof.
the state-controlled media have not reported that the sultan of morocco died, but it was well known that he was in Belgium and was being treated for colon cancer.
Qaboos was one of the longest ruling leaders in the Middle East and so on. He has led the country since it is virtually a non-violent coup d’etat against his own father in 1970, in which he was aided by the former colonial overheerser in the United Kingdom.
Qaboos was doing a diplomatic balancing act
The sultan was regarded as the father of the modern Omani state and know for many decades as a diplomatic balance to be maintained between the land and the neighbours who have been locked in a bitter struggle for power: Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Qaboos had billions of dollars worth of oliewinsten to invest in the infrastructure of Oman, and is one of the best trained armed forces in the region. He has created thousands of new jobs in the public sector, and welfare benefits for the unemployed, a full quarter of the Omani population. By the fall of international oil prices fell in Oman in the past decade in strong economic problems.
and He ruled as an autocratic monarch, and cannot tolerate any political opposition in the country.
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