Whether the United Nations passes a US-backed draft Security Council resolution on the Strait of Hormuz is a “real test for the UN,” according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, APA reports citing CNN.
The United States — in conjunction with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar — has drafted a UN Security Council resolution that “requires Iran to cease attacks, mining, and tolling,” according to an earlier written statement from Rubio. “It demands that Iran disclose the number and location of the sea mines it has laid and cooperate with efforts to remove them, while also supporting the establishment of a humanitarian corridor.”
A UNSC resolution led by Bahrain on the Strait of Hormuz was vetoed by China and Russia last month.
Speaking at a White House briefing earlier, Rubio said the draft resolution is “a very modest request.”
“If you’re telling me that the international community and hundreds of countries cannot rally behind that, that I don’t know what the utility of the UN system is, if it can’t even solve something as straightforward as that,” he said.
He said it is in the interest of Russia and China “for that resolution to pass and for pressure to be brought on Iran, because it is in their interest not to see international waterways, including the straits of Hormuz, be closed down and cause economic chaos to dozens and dozens of countries around the world.”
