Greece to UN: The Turkey-Libya Maritime Deal Ignores Greek Islands’ Rights

Athens formally rejects Libya’s unilateral maritime claims and calls for negotiations based connected planetary law

Greece has submitted an official letter to the United Nations dated September 3, responding to Libya’s May 27 communication, which unilaterally defined the outer limits of Libya’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) based connected the controversial Turkey-Libya maritime agreement.

Key Points from Greece’s Letter to the UN

• Greece categorically rejects the Turkey-Libya Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as illegal, emphasizing that:“It disregards the beingness and maritime rights of Greek islands.”
• Regarding the exploration blocks southbound of Crete, the missive reiterates that:“The delimitation is afloat successful enactment with the Law of the Sea.”
• Greece rejects the statement that maritime boundaries should beryllium drawn exclusively based connected continental coastlines — a longstanding Turkish position that disregards the relation of islands successful EEZ demarcation.

Clear Defense of the Greece-Egypt Agreement

Greece reaffirms the legitimacy of its EEZ statement with Egypt, stating that:

“The statement was concluded betwixt states with other coasts and successful afloat compliance with the applicable provisions of the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).”

 Greece Dismisses Libya’s Unilateral EEZ Submission

Athens firmly rejects the EEZ coordinates that Libya submitted to the UN connected May 27, pointing retired that:

• Disputed baselines were used
• The submission violates planetary law
• Greek sovereign rights were ignored

Greece Open to Dialogue – Under One Condition: International Law

While reserving each its sovereign rights, Greece expresses readiness to resume negotiations with Libya to delimit maritime zones. However, it insists that:“Such negotiations indispensable instrumentality spot strictly wrong the model of planetary law.”

Greece’s UN missive marks a wide diplomatic stand: unilateral moves and legally questionable agreements that undermine the Law of the Sea cannot basal unchallenged.

The connection is firm: respect for planetary instrumentality and the sovereign rights of islands is non-negotiable successful the Eastern Mediterranean

Source: pagenews.gr