FILE PHOTO: Jeppe Kofod, leading candidate from The Danish Social Democrats for the European Parliament elections 2019 during the election party at Christiansborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 26, 2019. Ritzau Scanpix/Lisolette Sabroe/ via REUTERS
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark said on Friday it welcomed a British government proposal for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and would consider a military maritime contribution.
Britain has sought to assemble the mission in Hormuz, used by tankers carrying about a fifth of the world's oil, following Iran's seizure of a British-flagged ship in what London said was an act of "state piracy".
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