4 February 2014 - Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs Jesus I. Yabes and his Omani counterpart, Undersecretary Ahmed bin Yousef Al-Harthy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Oman, congratulate each other after signing the Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Consultations at the Department of Foreign Affairs on February 04 on the occasion of the Second Philippines-Oman Informal Bilateral Consultations in Manila. The agreement creates a formal mechanism that will convene regularly to expand bilateral cooperation in political, economic, cultural, technological, scientific and educational matters. There are more than 33,000 Filipinos working and living in Oman. END