TL;DR
The Bahrain-drafted Hormuz resolution has been watered down three times and still faces a Russian-Chinese veto.
MSM Perspective
RFE/RL and Al-Monitor describe a resolution diluted to meaninglessness to avoid a veto it will get anyway.
X Perspective
X says the Security Council is performing diplomacy while two permanent members block any result.
The UN Security Council vote on a resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been postponed for the fourth time. Originally scheduled for April 3, then April 4, then April 8, the Bahrain-drafted text has now been pushed to next week. [1]
Each delay has been accompanied by further dilution. The original draft authorized "all necessary means" to secure the waterway. After French, Russian, and Chinese objections, the language was softened to "all defensive means." [2] The latest version, seen by AFP, drops the use-of-force authorization entirely, calling instead for "defensive" coordination and escort of commercial vessels. [1]
Russia and China, both holding vetoes, have signaled they will block even the watered-down text. China's UN ambassador warned that "authorizing force could escalate tensions." Russia called the proposal "unbalanced." [2]
The resolution's trajectory illustrates the Security Council's structural limitation: it can condemn (it passed an anti-Iran resolution in March) but cannot compel. X sees the exercise as institutional theater. MSM reports the procedural details without noting that a resolution stripped of enforcement power is functionally a press release with a UN watermark.
-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels
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