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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, March 19 /Xinhua/ — The issue of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz must be resolved through negotiations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated at a briefing on Thursday.
"Russia's position on this issue remains unchanged: we believe that a solution to the problem of restoring shipping in the Strait of Hormuz must be sought at the negotiating table, as is the case with negotiations in general. This situation should be resolved through political and diplomatic means. I won't say it's a situation, it's not a situation, but an attack on a sovereign state," the diplomat noted, commenting on the Trump administration's plans to announce this week the creation of a coalition to escort ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
M. Zakharova also commented on the information that no country has yet agreed to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz. According to her, from the perspective of international law, states that respond to Washington's call "will find themselves party to an armed conflict, and therefore complicit in the US and Israeli aggression against the sovereign, independent state of Iran."
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