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UN calls for opening of aid corridor to transit choked-off Strait of Hormuz [SOUND]

# The United Nations has stressed the urgent need to open an aid corridor to transit the choked-off Strait of Hormuz and prevent a global hunger crisis. This comes as the US and Iran have agreed to a deal that will allow the reopening of the Strait, which normally transports about 20-percent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas. UN Human Rights chief, Volker Türk, says the last months have shown that the big differences in the Middle East cannot be resolved by military means:

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