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Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper blames Iran for “hijacking an international shipping lane” and putting 45 million people at risk of acute hunger this year in her speech at the Global Partnerships Conference at Woolwich Works in south London.
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00:00And we meet against the backdrop of the Hormuz crisis, a strait of water through which 90 ships a day
00:08used to pass.
00:10But for the last three months, it's been more like five.
00:14Heating oil for Asia, stuck in the strait.
00:18Fertilisers for Africa, stuck in the strait.
00:2120,000 seafarers, 800 ships, just stuck in the strait.
00:26The price effects felt on the other side of the world, the global economy is being held hostage, and the
00:33global south is paying the biggest price.
00:37It's affecting the planting season too.
00:39The agricultural clock is ticking, and damage is already being done that will affect crop yields and food prices well
00:48into next year.
00:49As the World Food Programme has warned, some 45 million people in the global south are at risk of being
00:56pushed into acute hunger this year.
00:59The world risks sleepwalking into a global food crisis.
01:04And we cannot risk tens of millions of people going hungry, because Iran has hijacked an international shipping lane.
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