00:00Good morning everyone, Kurn, I said good morning.
00:03Representatives from over 40 countries met in the United Kingdom to discuss ways to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,
00:10a critical passage for energy exports that has been chocked off by the war in the Middle East.
00:15It is estimated that five vessels passed through the Strait in the last 24 hours, instead of 150 on a
00:23normal day,
00:23stressed UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, who has chaired the meeting.
00:28Cooper said the talks focused on political and diplomatic rather than military means.
00:332,000 trapped ships.
00:37We have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage.
00:44This is hitting the trading routes for Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi, Oman, Iraq,
00:50but that means liquid natural gas for Asia, fertilizer.
00:55US President Donald Trump did not attend the meeting after he said securing the waterway closed following US-Israeli strikes
01:03on Iran was not his country's job.
01:06During a visit in South Korea, French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the United States' idea of forcibly clearing the Strait
01:14of Hormuz
01:14through a military operation was unrealistic.
01:18It is never the option we have received.
01:20We consider that it is unrealistic.
01:23It is unrealistic because it would take an infinite time,
01:26and it would expose all the people who would go through the Strait,
01:29the risks of the left side of the government's government's government's government's bastions,
01:34and also ballistic missiles.
01:35The oil prices jumped 10% on Thursday following Trump's threat of further US strikes on Iran.
01:44Thank you very much.
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