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The UK and France will hold a fresh summit of military planners to discuss how the Strait of Hormuz can be kept open, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron continue a diplomatic push to restore free transit through the vital shipping route.<\/p>\n
Planners from more than 30 countries will participate in the talks in a two-day conference in north London, which will \u201cadvance military plans to reopen the Strait, as soon as conditions permit, following a sustainable ceasefire agreement,\u201d the UK\u2019s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Starmer and Macron have been leading efforts to coordinate a plan to keep the Strait open once the Iran war ends, though they\u2019ve resisted US President Donald Trump\u2019s request for allied nations to re-open the key shipping channel by force. Starmer and Macron hosted a summit on the issue in Paris last week, stressing the plan would be \u201cstrictly defensive in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe task, today and tomorrow, is to translate the diplomatic consensus into a joint plan to safeguard freedom of navigation in the Strait and support a lasting ceasefire,\u201d UK Defence Secretary John Healey said in the statement. \u201cI am confident that, over the next two days, real progress can be made.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz \u2014 through which about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquefied natural gas exports flowed before the war \u2014 remains closed to most commercial traffic for now, as it has been since just after the start of the war on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n
Iran said last week it would reopen the waterway, only to reverse the decision hours later as a US blockade on its own ships persisted. The US then intercepted and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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