00:00It's not a Western alliance or Eastern alliance or North alliance, South alliance.
00:04This is, we are in a very critical moment where there is an enormous erosion of multilateralism,
00:12of international rule-based order.
00:16Suggestions that tensions over the Strait of Hormuz reflect the clash between Western
00:20and Eastern blocs are inaccurate, according to a European Union envoy.
00:25The EU Special Envoy to the Indo-Pacific, Maria Castillo Fernandez, said the current instability
00:30was the result of a world of might makes right, where power governs trade and security instead
00:36of rules and laws.
00:38We need a world with rules.
00:39We need a world where, you know, once we commit to rules, you stick to them.
00:44Otherwise it will be a jungle of the law of the one who has more force and middle countries,
00:52middle democracies would not be able to try.
00:55The ongoing conflict in the Middle East between Iran, Israel and the U.S. has heightened concerns
01:00over disruptions to energy supplies and maritime trade routes passing through the Strait of
01:05Hormuz.
01:06Closer to home, the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest and most critical maritime
01:10routes, faces similar vulnerabilities.
01:12Whatever happens on this side of the world has an impact on us.
01:17Whatever happens in Europe has an impact here.
01:20Being a war, being a health crisis like COVID or being an energy crisis like we have here.
01:28Our trade passes through these waters.
01:31So important for us to uphold that international law of the sea, which is key for all of us.
01:39This is Danish Rajareza, FMT.
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