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UK rejects tolls on Strait of Hormuz

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LONDON — Britain’s top diplomat on Thursday rejected Iran’s push to charge ships to travel through the Strait of Hormuz.



Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the vital waterway is an international shipping and transit route which means the freedom of navigation principles apply.



“Countries cannot simply hijack those kinds of international transit routes and unilaterally apply tolls,” Cooper told the BBC. “They cannot do that as part of the laws of the sea and the United Nations

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