The 15-member body was set to vote Friday morning on a draft resolution brought by Bahrain, but by Thursday night the schedule shifted.
The reason given was that the United Nations observes Good Friday as a public holiday, according to diplomatic sources — despite this fact being known when the vote was first announced. No new date has been given for voting on the draft.
Iran has placed a stranglehold on the key shipping lane — threatening fuel supplies and roiling the global economy — in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes that triggered the month-old Middle East war.
”We cannot accept economic terrorism affecting our region and the world, the whole world is being affected by the developments,” Bahrain’s United Nations ambassador Jamal Alrowaiei said this week.
He said the text, which has gone through several amendments and is supported by the United States, ”comes at a critical juncture.”
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for countries struggling with fuel shortages to ”go get your own oil” in the Strait of Hormuz, adding that US forces would not help them. A sixth and final draft, seen by AFP, greenlights member states — either unilaterally or as ”voluntary multinational naval partnerships” — to use ”all defensive means necessary and commensurate with the circumstances.” Läs artikel