The Korea Times
President Lee Jae Myung and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed Friday to cooperate on securing safe maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz, with both leaders signaling a joint response to the economic and energy fallout from the Middle East war. "We agreed to share policy experiences and strategies to jointly respond to the economic and energy crisis caused by the Middle East war and to work together to resolve international economic uncertainty," Lee said, adding that the two had "confirmed their willingness to cooperate to secure safe maritime shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz." Macron said the two sides had discussed the Middle East situation at length. "I believe we can do useful things to stabilize the situation in Hormuz, and more broadly once the bombardments have ceased," he said. The agreement came out of a summit at the presidential office in Seoul, where the two leaders signed a series of agreements covering economic security and future technologies, with discussions ranging from trade and investment to artificial intelligence (AI), nuclear energy and space.
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