ANTALYA, April 18 (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said on Saturday 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.
“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.
(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Jonathan Spicer and Louise Heavens)
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