Lithuanian president says his country should join US in defending Hormuz

Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda says he is supportive of his country joining the US freedom of navigation mission in the Strait of Hormuz, adding that he would present the proposal to the Baltic state’s defense council.

The United States is pushing for other countries to help restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, according to a State Department cable seen by Reuters, as oil prices surged to their highest in more than four ​years on fears of longer-term disruptions to global fuel supplies.

“We have received the US proposal to join the Hormuz Strait navigation restoration coalition, and I intend to shortly present this proposal to the State Defense Council,” the president tells a news conference in Vilnius. “We would need a mandate from parliament.”