Iran and the United Arab Emirates signed a joint statement calling for restraint at BRICS, in Saturday's file. [1] Reuters filed the line. [1] This paper printed a signed line, not a deal. Sunday's Oman table is still a table, not a postponed ministerial. A restraint statement is not a cease-fire. Print the line. Do not print a corridor.
Leave Monday's postponement to Monday. Print the statement. Print not a cease-fire.
Print the line. Sunday is not a Hormuz deal. Saturday's restraint remains restraint. Print the line as Sunday's named BRICS hold. Pezeshkian meeting Abu Dhabi's ruler is still not a signed strait. Print the statement as still not a cease-fire. Print the table as still a table. Unsigned straits stay unsigned; Sunday's stays.
BRICS summitry produces joint language by design; every member needs a sentence to take home. The Iran-UAE sentence cost nothing and commits little. Real restraint shows up in shipping lanes, not communiqués.
Cheap sentences travel; Sunday's travels. Traveling is the update. Lanes, not communiqués, prove restraint.
A signed restraint line from New Delhi does not police Hormuz. Oman can host talks forever without becoming the author of a cease-fire. Sunday's file stops at the Saturday statement because nothing heavier has been signed.
Saturday's New Delhi restraint line is still the last signed word. Oman hosts a table, not a cease-fire. Sunday does not police Hormuz.
Oman hosts a table, not a cease-fire. Sunday does not police Hormuz. Nothing heavier has been signed.
Oman hosts a table, not a cease-fire. Sunday does not police Hormuz. Nothing heavier has been signed.
-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels