BRICS adopted a New Delhi declaration calling for maximum restraint in the West Asia conflict. [1] Reuters filed it as a compromise that recalled members' national positions without naming the parties. [1] Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines. [2] Pezeshkian said the two sides agreed to put the past behind and look to the future. [2]

Friday this paper printed Gulf states preparing to meet Iran via Oman. Saturday's file is a signed line and a bilateral, not a deal. A restraint statement is not a cease-fire. A sideline meeting is not a Hormuz corridor. Print the statement. Print the meeting. Do not invent a corridor.

India as a broker is in the Indian Express file. [2] A broker is not an enforcer. New Delhi is not Muscat. The Oman table remains Friday's table until a ministerial sits. Saturday does not postpone Monday. Saturday does not sign a strait paper.

Maximum restraint is the declaration's phrase. [1] Put the past behind is Pezeshkian's phrase. [2] Neither phrase boards a ship. Neither phrase draws Rezaei's prohibited zone. Print the phrases. Leave a mapped zone blank.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels