Exclusive-Greek PM calls Turkey-Libya maritime deal ‘void;’ calls for global truce after Black Sea attacks
Mitsotakis called the Libya-Turkey maritime deal illegal and urged more naval assets to protect Black Sea shipping and grain exports.
- On Thursday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared the maritime deal between Libya's eastern parliament and Turkey "blatantly illegal, null and void" at the United Nations, accusing it of disregarding Greek islands.
- Libya's eastern parliament approved the boundaries deal last week, drawing condemnation from Athens, Egypt, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates as a threat to regional security and international legal order.
- Following the sinking of a Greek-owned container vessel off Bulgaria this month, Mitsotakis urged an "international truce" to protect shipping lanes in the Black Sea after naval drones struck the ship.
- In New York on Wednesday, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis met United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, expressing hope that momentum for Cyprus discussions "must not be lost."
- Mitsotakis urged the European Union to deploy more "hard assets" to the Aspides naval mission, arguing that current contributions from Greece, Italy, and France are "clearly not enough.
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Exclusive-Greek PM calls Turkey-Libya maritime deal ‘void;’ calls for global truce after Black Sea attacks
By Antoni Slodkowski UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that the recently signed maritime deal between Libya's eastern parliament and Turkey was "blatantly illegal, null and void," adding that i...
Greek PM calls Turkey-Libya maritime deal 'void;' calls for global truce after Black Sea attacks
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that the recently signed maritime deal between Libya's eastern parliament and Turkey was \"blatantly illegal, null and void,\" adding that it \"completely disregards the geography.\" Read more at straitstimes.com.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis is sending a message to the international community while chairing the UN Security Council debate on international security, within the framework of the Greek presidency. “The so-called Turkish-Libyan memorandum on the delimitation of maritime zones constitutes a blatant violation of the fundamental principles of the International Law of the Sea,” he says. The post Kyriakos Mitsotakis: International Law cannot be applied sel…
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seleo.gr“Turkey and Libya have no objects or adjacent coasts, they have attempted to establish an artificial maritime border between them and this is absurd, there is no precedent for such a diagonal demarcation,” the prime minister said.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis will deliver his intervention at the high-level open debate of the Greek Presidency of the UN Security Council, on the topic of “Maintaining international peace and security: Emerging technologies and maritime security”. “Greece and Libya are natural neighbors at sea, with opposite coasts, and have the right, under International Law, to delimit their maritime zones by agreement. In contrast, Turkey and Libya do not have oppos…
Cyprus momentum ‘must not be lost’
Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis expressed hope late on Wednesday that the momentum gained for Cyprus during the term of Antonio Guterres at the helm of the United Nations would “not be lost”. “The momentum built during Antonio Guterres’ term must not be lost,” he said and supported “more official” discussions on the substance of […]
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