Greece lodges objections to UN over Libya-Turkish maritime border deal
Greece has lodged objections to the UN over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, a government spokesman said in Athens on Tuesday.
Greece expelled the Libyan ambassador in response to the deal last week, infuriated at a pact which skirts the Greek island of Crete and infringes, in Athens’s view, its continental shelf.
“This agreement was compiled in bad faith,” Reuters quoted the spokesman, Stelios Petsas, as saying. It violates the UN Law of the Sea, Petsas saidm, adding that the sea zones of Turkey and Libya “do not meet, and nor is there a sea border between the two states.”
The deal carves out a slanting sea corridor of maritime boundaries at the closest points between Libya and Turkey, potentially clearing the way for oil and gas search there.
Greece lodges objections to UN over Libya-Turkish maritime border deal
Source: RT