The United States and Oman signed a free trade agreement on the understanding that the Persian Gulf state will not boycott Israel. “I would like to assure you that Oman does not apply an aspect of the boycott, whether primary, secondary or tertiary,” Maqbool Bin Ali Sultan, the Omani minister of commerce, wrote in September to the U.S. trade representative, Robert Portman, in a letter obtained by JTA.
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