{"id":140379,"date":"2026-05-09T07:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/russian-saudi-fms-discuss-situation-around-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:02:48","slug":"russian-saudi-fms-discuss-situation-around-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/russian-saudi-fms-discuss-situation-around-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian, Saudi FMs discuss situation around Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOSCOW, May 8 \u2013 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, discussed the situation around the Strait of Hormuz during a phone conversation on Friday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a ministry statement, both sides stressed the inadmissibility of a return to escalation and the need to continue ongoing diplomatic contacts aimed at quickly reaching a sustainable, long-term agreement on all aspects of crisis resolution.<\/p>\n<p>They also emphasized the importance of restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz to the level that existed before the end of February, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides noted the advisability of resuming efforts to comprehensively normalize relations between Iran and Arab states for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Russia also reaffirmed its readiness to facilitate progress in these areas while taking into account the interests of all parties involved, according to the statement.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, May 8 \u2013 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, discussed the situation around the Strait of Hormuz during a phone conversation on Friday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. According to a ministry statement, both sides stressed the inadmissibility of a return to escalation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}