{"id":4253,"date":"2026-04-07T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/4253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:21:20","slug":"un-to-vote-on-watered-down-resolution-to-open-the-strait-of-hormuz-russia-and-china-are-key-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/4253\/","title":{"rendered":"UN to vote on watered-down resolution to open the Strait of Hormuz. Russia and China are key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz that has been repeatedly watered down<\/a> because of opposition from Russia and China. But it remains unclear whether they will still veto the Bahrain-sponsored measure.<\/p>\n

The vote is scheduled just hours before an 8 p.m. Eastern deadline<\/a> set by U.S. President Donald Trump for Iran to open the strategic waterway or face attacks on its power plants and bridges. One-fifth of the world\u2019s oil typically passes through the strait, and Iran\u2019s stranglehold during the war<\/a> has sent energy prices soaring.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s doubtful the resolution, even if adopted, would impact the war, now in its fifth week, because it has been significantly weakened to try to get Russia and China to abstain rather than veto it.<\/p>\n

The initial Bahrain proposal would have authorized countries to use \u201call necessary means\u201d \u2014 U.N. wording that would include military action \u2014 to ensure transit through the Strait of Hormuz and deter attempts to close it.<\/p>\n

After Russia, China and France, all veto-wielding countries on the 15-member Security Council, expressed opposition to approving the use of force, the resolution was revised to eliminate all references to offensive action. It would have authorized only \u201call defensive means necessary.\u201d A vote had been expected on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But instead the resolution was further weakened to eliminate any reference to Security Council authorization \u2014 which is an order for action \u2014 and limit its provisions to the Strait of Hormuz. Previous drafts had included adjacent waters.<\/p>\n

The resolution to be voted on Tuesday “strongly encourages states interested in the use of commercial maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz to coordinate efforts, defensive in nature, commensurate with the circumstances, to contribute to ensuring the safety and security of navigation across the Strait of Hormuz.\u201d<\/p>\n

This should include escorting merchant and commercial vessels, and deterring attempts to close, obstruct or interfere with international navigation through the strait, it says.<\/p>\n

The resolution also demands that Iran immediately halt attacks on merchant and commercial vessels and stop impeding their freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and attacking civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n

In response to the U.S. and Israeli attacks beginning on Feb. 28, Iran has targeted hotels, airports, residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure in more than 10 countries, including the Islamic Republic’s Gulf neighbors, some of the world\u2019s major exporters of oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n

Iran’s blockade in the strait is seen by Gulf nations as an existential threat. Bahrain, a Gulf nation that hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet and is the Security Council\u2019s Arab representative and its president this month, has been pressing for U.N. action.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Trump on Monday demanded again that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz after heaping praise on the U.S. military for the daring rescue<\/a> of two crewmen of a fighter jet shot down in Iran. The Republican president warned Iran that the “entire country can be taken out in one night, and that might be tomorrow night.\u201d<\/p>\n

He repeated the warning on Tuesday, saying a \u201cwhole civilization will die tonight\u201d if Tehran does not meet his deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia and China\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong have blamed the U.S. and Israel for starting the war and sparking an expanding global crisis. They told the Security Council last week that the most urgent priority now is to end military operations immediately.<\/p>\n

In response to Iran\u2019s strikes against its Gulf neighbors, the Security Council adopted a Bahrain-sponsored resolution<\/a> on March 11 condemning the \u201cegregious attacks\u201d and calling for Tehran to immediately halt its strikes.<\/p>\n

That resolution, adopted by a vote of 13-0 with Russia and China abstaining, also condemned Iran\u2019s actions in the Strait of Hormuz as a threat to international peace and security and called for an immediate end to all actions blocking shipping.<\/p>\n

Edith M. Lederer And Farnoush Amiri, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution aimed at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56,3098,3100,5,3097,1339,313,3099],"class_list":{"0":"post-4253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-president-donald-trump","10":"tag-resolution","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russia-and-china","13":"tag-security-council","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","15":"tag-the-resolution"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}