Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe all want to see safe passage of vessels through the strait, a critical waterway that is being held hostage by the Iranian regime,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, said Wong would attend the meeting virtually. The move follows Australia signing up to a UK-led statement condemning Iran\u2019s attacks on commercial vessels and civilian infrastructure in the Gulf.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will work with countries like the UK and France to see how we can help in respect of the strait of Hormuz,\u201d Marles told ABC radio. \u201cAll of those countries, and very much Australia, have an interest in seeing the straits of Hormuz opened as soon as possible. We will look to what Australia can do.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also important to note that we have him in the region our E7-A Wedgetail, which is playing a really important role in providing for the defence of the countries of the Gulf, but specifically the UAE.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 35 nations include the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, as well as Japan, Canada, South Korea, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates and Nigeria.<\/p>\n
It commits the countries to a \u201creadiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the strait\u201d.<\/p>\n
About 1,000 ships and thousands of civilian sailors have been stranded in the strait by Iran\u2019s partial blockade in response to the US and Israeli strikes. Twenty per cent of the world\u2019s oil and gas supplies were carried through the strait before the conflict, constraining global fuel supplies and swelling prices.<\/p>\n
The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, said any request for Australia to contribute should be given \u201cfull consideration\u201d but questions the country\u2019s capability to provide support.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe certainly support opening up the strait of Hormuz \u2026 Any reasonable requests made of us should be given absolute fair consideration, and we are willing to be part of that consideration,\u201d Taylor told Sky News.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first question is what has been asked of us. I think that\u2019s unclear at this point \u2026 We haven\u2019t got clarity on what capability the government might have to help with that exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia will join talks with 35 nations, convened by the United Kingdom, to explore ways to reopen the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-370324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}