Oman's Finance Minister made it clear that the country is not ready to normalize ties with Israel until a permanent solution is reached.

He re-affirmed Oman's solidarity with Palestinians against the Israeli aggressions.

"Oman believes in the principle of achieving a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace," minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi told the London-based Saudi paper Asharq Al-Awsat.

"We are with the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and we respect the sovereign decisions of states, just as we expect others to respect our sovereign decisions," he added.

Oman has resisted calls to re-establish ties with Israel after several Gulf states, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized relations last year under US-brokered accords.

Last year, there were speculations in the Israeli press that Oman and Sudan were in the process of holding US-brokered talks with Israel to announce respective peace deals.

While Sudan agreed to normalize relations in October 2020, efforts to bring Oman into the fold have thus been in vain.