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🇧🇭Bahrain · Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani · Day 4 · 9 sentences

• We also condemn their threats to freedom of navigation in the Bab el-Mandeb and the Red Sea. 9:28:50Copy
• Security Council Resolution 2817 also referred to Bab el-Mandeb, recognizing that a threat to one waterway is a threat to navigation through all waterways. 9:33:40Copy
• The security of navigation in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bab el-Mandeb is part of the same system. 9:33:57Copy
• The resolution condemned the attacks against our countries, reaffirming their sovereignty and rejecting any action intended to close the Strait or obstruct navigation through it. 9:34:59Copy

🇰🇼Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 6 sentences

• And furthermore, to inflict harm on the economies of the region and the world and to disrupt global trade and oil markets, Iran is obstructing maritime navigation and closing the Strait of Hormuz to use it as a bargaining chip in the war, in violation of international law and the relevant Security Council resolutions. 7:54:22Copy
• They have also stressed the importance of guaranteeing freedom of navigation without restrictions or conditions. 7:55:22Copy
• in addition to seizing support for proxies and militias and addressing the security concerns of all countries in the region, including the Iranian nuclear file, ballistic missiles and drones, while stressing the guarantee of freedom and safety of navigation and the right of passage through the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb in accordance with the international law and the 1982 UN Convention on Law of the Sea. 7:56:29Copy
• These agreements serve as vital legal and practical instruments for regulating navigation, protecting the environment, combating terrorism, as well as combating the illicit trafficking of arms and narcotics, and enhancing shared security. 7:58:57Copy

🇧🇪Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 5 sentences

• That brings me to a freedom that may at first sound rather technical, freedom of navigation. 11:48:20Copy
• That is precisely what freedom of navigation represents today. 11:49:17Copy
• the safety of navigation, the protection of the marine environment, and respect for the rights of coastal states. 11:51:40Copy
• And that is why freedom of navigation depends on common rules, so that every country can exercise its rights. 11:52:24Copy

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia · Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud · Day 5 · 5 sentences

• Mr. President, safeguarding international navigation and the resilience of global supply chains is a shared responsibility that requires serious international cooperation to prevent risks that could affect the global economy. 3:42:31Copy
• In this regard, the Kingdom stresses the importance of ensuring freedom of navigation in all international waterways, foremost among them the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden. 3:42:47Copy
• The kingdom in this regard welcomes the statement issued by the members of the Security Council including the condemnation of the missile and drone attacks carried out by the Houthi terrorist militia against the kingdom and against commercial unity to reject and condemn all the Houthi terrorist militias aggressions and criminal acts that threaten the security of navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait. 3:45:28Copy
• Ensuring the stability of energy supplies, protecting critical infrastructure, diversifying supply routes, and safeguarding freedom of navigation are all a shared responsibility that require sustained international cooperation. 3:48:18Copy

🇷🇴Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 3 sentences

• In response to the disruption of freedom of navigation in the Black Sea, together with Bulgaria and Turkey, Romania is part of the mine countermeasures task group in the Black Sea. 48:30Copy
• This initiative safeguards freedom of navigation and the region's energy security. 48:50Copy
• Romania will continue to promote maritime security and unrestricted freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as in the Black Sea area and elsewhere. 52:55Copy

🇵🇹Portugal · Luís Montenegro · Day 3 · 3 sentences

• Similarly, The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz must end and freedom of navigation must be guaranteed, including safe and toll-free passage, including through the Red Sea. 6:01:15Copy
• Climate change and freedom of navigation share a common priority of our policy, the sea and ocean. 6:05:35Copy
• Protecting the marine environment and its biodiversity, Combating ocean warming, addressing the threat of sea level rise, and ensuring universal freedom of navigation are essential priorities on the ocean agenda, which is an agenda we all have to pay attention to. 6:05:47Copy

🇾🇪Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 3 sentences

• The Houthi militias use of the safety of navigation as a tool for blackmail threaten not only Yemen. 7:35:12Copy
• It is the responsibility of every economy that depends on secure supply chains, energy security, and freedom of navigation. 7:38:01Copy
• This initiative reflects a deep appreciation and understanding of collective responsibility to protect navigation, deter threats, and combat smuggling. 7:38:22Copy

🇸🇬Singapore · Vivian Balakrishnan · Day 5 · 3 sentences

• Transit passage through straits used for international navigation is a right for all of us. 4:17:47Copy
• At stake is the legal architecture for freedom of navigation and overflight. 4:18:19Copy
• Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, the three littoral states of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, have worked with other users of these Straits to keep the Straits open, secure and accessible to everyone for decades, including through the cooperative mechanism on the safety of navigation and environmental protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. 4:19:43Copy

🇹🇷Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• We continue our contacts with the parties with a view to restoring safety of navigation in the Black Sea, ensuring food security, and preventing the war from spreading to a wider region. 3:11:25Copy
• We believe that freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hermus must be maintained. 3:11:58Copy

🇱🇹Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• In recent months, Iran has continued attacking neighboring countries, often through its proxies, while actively impairing the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. 4:09:27Copy
• Lithuania commends all efforts to find a solution ensuring freedom of navigation. 4:10:11Copy

🇰🇷Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• Tensions surrounding the Strait of Hormuz are undermining the fundamental principles of free and safe navigation and heightening the vulnerability of energy supply chains. 7:03:21Copy
• Freedom of navigation and safe passage through international straits is a right grounded in international law and serves as a bedrock of the global economy. 7:09:40Copy

🇯🇵Japan · Takaichi Sanae · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• The situation in the Middle East has been growing increasingly tense, and free and safe navigation is increasingly under challenge in the Strait of Hormuz, which is an international public good. 10:37:34Copy
• Ensuring free and safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz for all vessels without additional costs, as has been the case, is extremely important not only for the security of the Middle East, but also for the stability of the global economy as a whole. 10:46:26Copy

🇭🇷Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 2 sentences

• This is why freedom of navigation, maritime security, and the strict implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea matter to everyone. 11:24:25Copy
• For us, freedom of navigation and maritime security are both a national interest and a global responsibility. 11:24:35Copy

🇮🇹Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 2 sentences

• And as war advances, the principles on which we have built 80 years of international relations retreat, the prohibition of the use of force, international humanitarian law, and freedom and security of navigation. 12:20:48Copy
• Defending freedom of navigation means defending trade, jobs, growth, and dialogue, because where goods can move freely, weapons are less likely to do so. 12:20:59Copy

🇬🇷Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• Freedom of navigation and uninhibited passage through international straits, as guaranteed by international law, must be championed globally. 10:29:20Copy
• If we systematically threaten the freedom of navigation and do not protect vital sea routes, the global economy risks coming to a grinding halt. 10:43:47Copy

🇦🇺Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 2 sentences

• We are strong supporters of freedom of navigation and overflight for all nations, just as we are in our efforts to combat nuclear proliferation. 11:02:23Copy
• Australia has been consistent in our calls for a ceasefire and for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen and restore the freedom of navigation and trade. 11:05:33Copy

🇴🇲Oman · Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• Subsequent events have shown that the escalation has extended to threaten the security of the countries of the region and paralyze navigation and trade through the vital Strait of Hormuz, affecting energy security, price stability, and confidence in the current international order. 7:16:10Copy
• the Sultanate of Oman once again reaffirms its steadfast commitment to continuing its efforts aimed at safeguarding navigation in the Strait of Hormuz in accordance with the principles of international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. 7:16:39Copy

🇨🇦Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 2 sentences

• And Canada, with Ukraine, will continue to work together to support safe and secure navigation in the Black Sea by strengthening Ukraine's port infrastructure and disrupting and deterring the illegal activities of Russia's shadow fleet. 7:45:42Copy
• Its threats to navigation rights in the Strait of Hormuz are a direct affront to international law. 7:46:50Copy

🇶🇦Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We remain deeply convinced, and our conviction is based on realistic considerations, convinced that the crisis in the Gulf can be resolved through diplomatic means, by reopening the Strait of Hormuz to maritime navigation and returning to negotiations in order to avert war, paving the way toward a lasting solution that ensures security and stability for the entire region, including Iran, while opening prospects for cooperation across various fields and ensuring non-interference in the internal affairs of states. 3:54:31Copy

🇫🇮Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• They include independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of nations, freedom of navigation at sea, and accountability for the most serious international crimes. 5:11:27Copy

🇫🇷France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• We also have an independent multinational coalition aimed at restoring the freedom of navigation in the Hormuz Strait. 5:47:24Copy

🇦🇴Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• The toll of these wars is disastrous, judging by the consequences arising from the strangulation of freedom of maritime navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb, A situation that has created serious risk of disruption to logistics supply chains in general and to food and energy supply chains in particular with devastating effects on the most vulnerable countries. 6:23:58Copy

🇸🇱Sierra Leone · Julius Maada Bio · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Civilians must be protected, humanitarian access ensured, aggression and occupation ended, and freedom of navigation safeguarded. 7:42:07Copy

🇸🇨Seychelles · Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Freedom of navigation and maritime security must be preserved under international law. 9:00:23Copy

🇬🇧United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• That's why we're also working with France and other partners to support freedom of navigation in the Gulf. 11:15:31Copy

🇲🇦Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 1 sentence

• Indeed, they now seek to control maritime corridors and straits and to threaten freedom of navigation. 12:12:23Copy

🇵🇾Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• for the full reopening of and freedom of navigation through the Straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, and a return to negotiations. 1:51:49Copy

🇪🇪Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Estonia has consistently condemned the attack by Iran against our close partners the Gulf States and has shown its readiness to contribute to ensuring freedom of navigation in the region. 2:50:20Copy

🇵🇼Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Reaffirming the primary responsibility of the UN Charter to maintain global peace and security, we uphold the sovereignty of Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and condemn the actions of Iran to jeopardize maritime security and aim to obstruct, close, and interfere with international navigation through the strait. 3:58:34Copy

🇩🇴Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• And this is why we advocate de-escalation, freedom of navigation, and for a diplomatic solution that prevents nuclear proliferation in the region. 4:27:40Copy

🇧🇬Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• Applying the approach of practical diplomacy, we are preparing an initiative under which it will strive, together with countries of the region and all interested parties, to reach an agreement and collective action to ensure the freedom and security of navigation in the Black Sea. 5:40:50Copy

🇲🇪Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 1 sentence

• The same commitment to international law applies to freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a route whose security has implications far beyond the region. 10:15:13Copy

🇸🇴Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Ensuring free and fair navigation through the strait is therefore essential to protecting vulnerable economies like Somalia and sustaining stability, advancing development, and delivering basic services. 2:37:26Copy

🇪🇺European Union · António Costa · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• Freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz must be preserved without conditions and without hindrance. 4:12:31Copy

🇫🇯Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 1 sentence

• The freedoms of navigation guaranteed under the international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, must be respected. 6:37:48Copy

🇮🇶Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Nevertheless, we express concern regarding developments concerned with freedom of transport and maritime navigation, and the crisis this has caused in terms of the rise of global energy prices. 1:10:54Copy

🇱🇧Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• With regard to the security situation in the region, Lebanon wishes to renew its solidarity with the states of the Arab Gulf and with Jordan in the face of Iranian attacks that threaten regional security and the freedom and safety of maritime navigation. 1:39:42Copy

🇲🇭Marshall Islands · Hilda Heine · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We all will experience pressure to accept a false narrative that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 somehow serves as a legal pretext under the UN Charter for coercion or war, impairing freedom of navigation in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. 2:17:31Copy

🇰🇿Kazakhstan · Mukhtar Tileuberdi · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Such incidents endanger civilian navigation, disrupt international trade, and threaten the stability of global energy supplies. 10:14:15Copy

🇲🇷Mauritania · Mohamed Salem Merzoug · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• We express our deep concern towards the military escalation in the Middle East and the resulting threat to the entire region and its stability, the repercussions of which would also reach the Strait of Hormuz and the regional and international navigation in this important waterway. 10:46:43Copy

🇲🇺Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• The crisis in the Gulf and threats to freedom of navigation have sent shockwaves across the global economy. 11:17:02Copy

🇳🇴Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence

• Take freedom of navigation as an example. 11:44:14Copy

🇨🇺Cuba · Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• A superpower unilaterally deprives all states of their right to export the commodities that they wish to the country that they wish to export them to, and continuously and comprehensively violates freedom of trade and navigation. 2:55:05Copy

🇷🇺Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Repeated armed confrontations in the Persian Gulf and the Hormuz Strait are ongoing, despite the fact that this is dealing a blow to global navigation and trade. 3:14:51Copy

🇮🇸Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• And for an island nation dependent on open maritime routes, freedom of navigation is fundamental. 4:02:07Copy

🇹🇳Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Tunisia also reaffirms its commitment to freedom of navigation and maritime security in accordance with the principles and provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and customary international law, while preserving global energy security, international supply chains, and the economic rights of states. 6:01:51Copy

🇸🇲San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Freedom of navigation is essential to global stability. 6:33:48Copy

🇩🇯Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 1 sentence

• Preserving freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, and more particularly through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, is a major geopolitical and economic issue for regional and global stability. 6:51:43Copy

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Amid growing threats to navigation in our region and beyond, my country has continued to emphasize the principles of freedom of navigation and the right of transit passage, We stressed the need to secure and protect the safe flow of supply chains, trade and energy in accordance with international law, including the law of the sea and the principle of state sovereignty, recognizing these as pillars of food security, development and prosperity of nations. 3:31:51Copy

🇳🇿New Zealand · Victoria Louise Hallum · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• We urge you to use your good offices to secure a lasting end to hostilities in the Persian Gulf and restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, which is a right guaranteed under international law. 4:07:12Copy

🇩🇰Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• At the same time, We urge Iran to comply fully with Resolution 2817, cease attacks against countries in the region, and refrain from any actions or threats that undermine the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. 5:53:03Copy

🇵🇭Philippines · · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• The certainty and predictability provided by UNCLOS underpinned the freedoms of navigation and overflight and other internationally lawful uses of the sea and enable the unimpeded flow of lawful commerce through the world's waterways. 7:51:28Copy

🇵🇭Philippines · · Day 6 · 1 sentence

• Further, There is no legal basis for China's expansive maritime claims, including claims based on historic rights, and that the freedom of navigation, overflight, and other lawful uses of the sea under UNCLOS must be respected. 8:13:57Copy