Bahrain circulates revised UN Hormuz draft, drops binding enforcement

Bahrain has circulated a revised U.N. Security Council draft resolution on protecting commercial shipping in and around ​the Strait of Hormuz, retaining language authorising “all necessary means” but dropping ‌an explicit reference to binding enforcement. Shipping through the waterway, through which roughly a fifth of global oil supplies pass and which underpins Gulf economies, has […]