TL;DR
Paris has a Security Council text ready to file — and not yet a second name on it.
MSM Perspective
Reuters via Baird Maritime confirmed the draft exists; the co-sponsor question is buried in the diplomatic-baggage paragraph.
X Perspective
X reads the silence behind the French draft as the gap between Western rhetoric and Western willingness to vote.
France's Foreign Ministry spokesman Pascal Confavreux told reporters in Paris Friday that France has drafted a UN Security Council resolution to set up an international mission to restore movement through the Strait of Hormuz, and could submit it "if conditions are right." [1] The text exists on paper. No co-sponsor has put a name on it.
The draft is the alternative to a US-Bahraini text the paper's Wednesday lead on Trump's "no hurry" pivot treated as the unresolved end of the deadline week. [1] Russia and China signalled they would veto the US-Bahraini draft, which has secured roughly 140 co-sponsors but no path past the P5. France has refused to back it. The "Maritime Freedom Construct" Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot floated from Abu Dhabi in late April is the policy frame that the Friday draft converts into a tabled text. [1]
Confavreux did not name a co-sponsor, did not commit to a tabling date, and did not specify the mission's composition. The UK has been the obvious second signatory inside the original Anglo-French construct; London produced no public reply Friday. The five Gulf states that wrote jointly to the IMO Friday warning shipping companies not to comply with Iran's PGSA map — Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE — are the natural Gulf co-sponsors. None has signed on either.
A Security Council draft without a co-sponsor is the same artifact as a coordinate polygon without recognition. The text is ready; the politics are not.
-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem