Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty
Abdelatty made his remarks during a series of separate phone calls with counterparts across the Gulf and Europe, as the conflict entered its 13th day with US and Israeli strikes against Iran continuing and Tehran pressing ahead with retaliatory attacks on Israel, US military bases and energy facilities in the Gulf, Jordan, and Iraq.
Abdelatty spoke with the foreign ministers of Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, and Germany, reiterating Egypt's condemnation of attacks on Gulf states, including a strike on fuel storage tanks at the port of Salalah in Oman.
He called for an immediate halt to “Iranian aggression in violation of international law,” according to a foreign ministry statement.
He also pointed to UN Security Council Resolution 2817, which demands a cessation of attacks, noting that Egypt was among the first countries to co-sponsor it.
He stressed that the resolution's explicit condemnation of targeting civilians and critical infrastructure, according to the statement.
During the calls, the ministers warned that further escalation threatens regional and global peace and security and would leave no winner, affirming that a diplomatic solution is the only viable path forward.
The minister also pledged to intensify engagement with relevant regional and international stakeholders to bring the conflict to an end.
Meanwhile, the minister further underscored the need for a broader rethink of regional security architecture in cooperation with regional and international partners.
He reiterated Cairo's call to activate the Joint Arab Defence Agreement and establish a unified Arab force, a step he described as essential to protecting Arab states' sovereignty against current threats, the statement added.
The war is turning the region's waterways into a battlefield and destabilizing the global energy market, as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint carrying a fifth of the world's oil and gas, has effectively ground to a halt.
Tehran pledged that "not even a single litre of oil" would be exported through the strait from the Gulf to the US and Israel for as long as the war continues.
The Gulf nations are meanwhile intercepting dozens of Iranian missiles targeting US assets and energy facilities, as Iran pressed a campaign to disrupt global energy markets in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes.
Brent crude has surged past $100 a barrel, a 38 percent increase since the war's onset, triggering a global fuel shock reminiscent of the 1970s oil crisis, prompting international bodies to coordinate a record-breaking release of strategic oil reserves.
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