{"id":315062,"date":"2026-04-08T01:05:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=315062"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:35:57","slug":"russia-china-veto-un-security-council-measure-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/russia-china-veto-un-security-council-measure-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, China veto UN Security Council measure to reopen Strait of Hormuz – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution geared toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz that had been repeatedly watered down in hopes those two countries would abstain.<\/p>\n

The vote \u2014 11-2, with two abstentions from Pakistan and Colombia\u2014 took place just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an unprecedented threat that a \u201cwhole civilization will die tonight\u201d if Iran doesn’t open the strategic waterway and make a deal before his 8 p.m. Eastern deadline. One-fifth of the world\u2019s oil typically passes through the strait, and Iran\u2019s stranglehold throughout the war has sent energy prices soaring.<\/p>\n

Russia and China strongly defended their opposition, each directly citing Trump\u2019s most up-to-date and\u00a0perilous threat yet\u00a0to finish Iran\u2019s civilization as confirmation that the proposal would have given U.S. and Israel \u201ccarte blanche for continued aggression,\u201d as Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia put it.<\/p>\n

Nebenzia and China\u2019s U.N. ambassador, Fu Cong, said probably the most recent text did not capture the basis causes and full picture of the conflict by showing that America and its closest ally began the now spiraling war.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSuch language is very vulnerable to misinterpretation and even abuse,\u201d Cong said in his statement.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe draft resolution, should it have been adopted, would send a incorrect message and have serious, very serious consequences.\u201d Cong said the war is prone to escalate, with america now \u201copenly threatening the very survival of a civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foreign minister of Bahrain, which authored the draft, assailed the U.N.\u2019s strongest body for not taking motion and allowing the international community to be \u201cheld hostage to economic blackmail\u201d from Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cFailing to adopt this resolution sends the incorrect signal to the world, to the people of the world,\u201d Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani said after the vote \u2014 \u201cthe signal that the threat to international waterways can pass with none decisive motion by the international organization liable for the upkeep of international peace and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But Iran\u2019s ambassador to the U.N. thanked its allies on the 15-member council for refusing to adopt the resolution.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe text unjustifiably and misleadingly portrays Iran\u2019s lawful measures within the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz, which have been taken within the exercise of its inherent right of self-defense in accordance with the UN Charter, as threats to international peace and security,\u201d Amir-Saeid Iravani said in his statement.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s doubtful the resolution, even when it had been adopted, would have impacted the war, now in its sixth week, since it was been significantly weakened to attempt to get Moscow and Beijing to abstain slightly than veto it.<\/p>\n

The initial Gulf proposal would have authorized countries to make use of \u201call obligatory means\u201d \u2014 U.N. wording that might include military motion \u2014 to make sure transit through the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz\u00a0and deter attempts to shut it.<\/p>\n

The US, which had supported the draft from its original form, assailed the countries that objected to the resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody should tolerate that they’re holding the worldwide economy at gunpoint,\u201d Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said of Iran, \u201cbut today, Russia and China did tolerate it.\u201d He said in his statement: \u201cThey sided with a regime that seeks to intimidate the Gulf into submission, whilst it brutalizes its own people during a national web blackout, for daring to assume dignity or freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Russia, China and France, all veto-wielding countries on the 15-member Security Council, expressed opposition to approving the usage of force, the resolution was revised to eliminate all references to offensive motion. It will have authorized only \u201call defensive means obligatory.\u201d A vote had been expected on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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