Cooper held a meeting on Thursday with representatives from more than 40 countries, including Sweden, about what can be done to reopen the strait. Sweden participated at an official level.
According to French President Emmanuel Macron, it is unrealistic to believe that it would be possible to do so by military means. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that no efforts can be made until the US and Israel's war with Iran is over.
Traffic through the strait, in and out of the Persian Gulf, has come to a near standstill since the war began a month ago.
Kidnapped Strait
After Thursday's meeting, the British Foreign Secretary accused Iran of hijacking the strait to hold the world economy hostage, AFP reports.
One-fifth of the world's oil and gas trade passes through the strait, and countries in Asia, such as China, South Korea and Japan in particular, receive a large part of their oil and gas supplies through this route. Important inputs for agricultural fertilizers, helium used in computer chip manufacturing and other goods of global importance are also affected.
But China and the United States, unlike Japan and South Korea, have not joined the initiative and the work that Thursday's exploratory meeting was part of.
Mobilize
The US says that the more than 40 countries behind the initiative must resolve the matter on their own. The US does not intend to help and is disappointed that countries such as France, South Korea, Japan, Germany and Italy have not supported it in the war against Iran.
According to Yvette Cooper, the goal is to mobilize the diplomatic resources, economic strength and pressure of the participating countries to make it possible to reopen traffic.
