{"id":903945,"date":"2026-04-19T02:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/903945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:47:17","slug":"uk-france-press-hormuz-reopening-naval-mission-mine-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/903945\/","title":{"rendered":"UK-France press Hormuz reopening, naval mission, mine clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"UK-France press Hormuz reopening, naval mission, mine clearance\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sihasak Phuangketkeow<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs, assigned <strong>Nikorndej Balankura<\/strong>, Ambassador in <strong>Paris<\/strong>, to represent Thailand at the virtual meeting on Freedom of Navigation in the <strong>Strait of Hormuz<\/strong> on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was co-chaired by <strong>Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, President of the French Republic, and Sir <strong>Keir Starmer<\/strong>, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 countries from the Middle East, South Asia, the Indo-Pacific and the European Union took part, along with two international organisations: the <strong>International Maritime Organisation<\/strong> (<strong>IMO<\/strong>) and the <strong>North Atlantic Treaty Organisation<\/strong> (<strong>NATO<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776566837_132_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"UK-France press Hormuz reopening, naval mission, mine clearance\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sihasak Phuangketkeow, Minister of Foreign Affairs, assigned Nikorndej Balankura, Ambassador in Paris, to represent Thailand at the virtual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,774,808,74677,16],"class_list":["post-903945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-iran","tag-maritime","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116429092005402427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}