BRUSSELS: King Phillippe Leopold Louis Marie, King of the Belgians, thanked His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik and the Sultanate for securing the release of a Belgian aid worker from Iran in May last year.
Speaking at an official dinner hosted by the King and his spouse Queen Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine, Queen of the Belgians, as part of His Majesty the Sultan’s state visit, King Leopold said Belgium “will be forever grateful” to Oman.
“Your keen sense of discreet and effective mediation, at which you are so adept, as well as your detailed understanding of the forces at work in the region, was put to good use to ensure the safety of one of our compatriots at a moment of great danger. Thanks to your diplomacy, his life and those of other Europeans was saved. We will be forever grateful,” he added.
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Aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, 42, was arrested on a visit to Iran in February 2022 and sentenced in January to 40 years in prison and 74 lashes on charges including spying.
