The EU’s foreign policy chief says the bloc supports “work by the UN on humanitarian corridors in the Strait [of Hormuz] to get food and fertilisers out”, claiming that the EU “has tools to track and facilitate transit that could help with that”, Al Jazeera reports.
She has said in a post on X that the EU’s Aspides naval mission has “assisted 1,700 ships in the Red Sea and must be scaled up”.
“We cannot afford to lose another critical trade route,” Kallas has stressed, after attending a meeting initiated by the UK on the Strait of Hormuz.
