New Delhi, April 10 -- Bahrain's Foreign Minister, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, warned that the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, driven by tensions with Iran, is threatening global stability by pushing millions into poverty and food insecurity.

He emphasised that this is a global emergency, not a regional dispute, with 4 million in the Arab world potentially affected.

"Closing the Strait does not target any one party but constitutes a direct threat to the Global South, whose populations will bear the heaviest burden," Al Zayani stated, according to The Jerusalem Post.

A Bahrain-backed UN Security Council resolution addressing the crisis was blocked by Russia and China on Tuesday. A draft resolution put forward by Bahrain and...