UN Awaits Go-Ahead to Move Fertilizer Through Hormuz Strait
Ships at the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal in the Sharjah Emirate along the Strait of Hormuz.
Photographer: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty ImagesThe United Nations is ready to set up a corridor to allow fertilizer to move freely through the Strait of Hormuz and reach farmers for the planting season — but doing so hinges on a political agreement to go forward, according to a top UN official.
“The UN is ready — we have the teams identified, we have the system prepared, we have the technical design of the mechanism. We just need a political and diplomatic solution that allows us to start,” UN Undersecretary General Jorge Moreira da Silva, who is overseeing the initiative, said in an interview.