[Bloomberg] Janine Zacharia and Paul Tighe - The UN Security Council said Iran should release 15 UK sailors seized in the Persian Gulf. Council members want "an early resolution to this problem, including the release of the 15 UK personnel,'' Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo of South Africa, which holds the body's rotating presidency, said in a statement issued Thursday in New York. The Security Council's statement replaced a stronger draft proposed by the UK "deploring'' Iran's actions. Russia led calls for the wording to be changed, objecting to the Council taking the British position that its vessels were operating in Iraqi waters.
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