UK’s top diplomat urges full resumption of shipping through Hormuz Strait

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British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the Strait of Hormuz had yet to return to normal operations despite a ceasefire in the Iran war, and urged Tehran to allow global shipping to resume fully, reports AFP.

“We are at a critical diplomatic moment with a ceasefire now in place … but we don’t yet have normal passage through the strait”, Cooper told Reuters on the sidelines of a diplomacy forum in Antalya.

She said the truce needed to develop into a lasting peace, adding that restoring shipping through the waterway was urgent for the global economy.

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