Egypt-Greece to Sign Deal on Demarcating Maritime Borders in Hours

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Egypt-Greece to Sign Deal on Demarcating Maritime Borders in Hours
by Hassanin Tayea 12:18 PM August 6, 2020




Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is set to arrive in Egypt, today Thursday, in an official visit to put the finishing touches on the agreement to demarcate the maritime borders between Egypt and Greece, according to Greek diplomatic sources.

The sources confirmed that there will be consensus between the two sides on signing the maritime border demarcation agreement, stressing that following the signing of agreement on demarcating an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) between Greece and Italy, Dendias announced that he would visit Egypt to ink a similar deal.

According to the statements of the Greek Foreign Minister, “The delimitation of maritime zones is achieved in accordance with International Law, through valid agreements. Not through null and void agreements, like the Turkey – Tripoli-based Prime Minister Fayez al Sarraj agreement, And, of course, not through the unilateral submission of coordinates.”

Egypt is seeking to drop the agreement signed between Sarraj and Erdogan in the eastern Mediterranean, as Cairo and Athens agreed several months ago to accelerate the demarcation of the maritime borders between the two countries.

The sources noted that the visit of the Greek foreign minister to Cairo comes at a very important time, especially after the signing of maritime boundaries agreement between Greece and Italy.

Greece and Turkey

Meantime, Athens works on mobilizing international support to stop Ankara’s ambitions in the region, especially after it drew a controversial map with Libya and announcing to conduct gas exploration activities in the eastern Mediterranean.

From a Greek perspective, the signing of the EEZ with Italy has major ramifications for Turkey’s plans to steal oil and gas from the Greek naval region, hampering its efforts to fully control the eastern Mediterranean.

Last year, Turkey signed a maritime agreement with Sarraj government in Libya to extract Greek oil without acknowledging the existence of Cyprus in the EEZ.

These agreements between Greece, Italy and Egypt are indeed of great importance in order to ensure prosperity and cooperation between the three countries in the oil and gas rich region.

https://see.news/egypt-greece-to-sig...itime-borders/

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Turkey suspended gas exploration at the request of Merkel to give talks a chance and you went ahead and did this. Seems Erdogan is right and we are going to talk to you in the only language you understand.

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Turkey suspended gas exploration at the request of Merkel to give talks a chance and you went ahead and did this. Seems Erdogan is right and we are going to talk to you in the only language you understand.

At the request of Merkel? haha

Now we're waiting for Erdogan to make the next move, next Greek move will be to extend territorial waters to 12n.m and fix EEZ with Cyprus!

The Greek navy is waiting for you!

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Turkey suspended gas exploration at the request of Merkel to give talks a chance and you went ahead and did this. Seems Erdogan is right and we are going to talk to you in the only language you understand.

Turkey suspended the 'threat'of exploration. Not in that zone, but South of Kastelorizo. As if exploration would have changed something regarding Turkey's rights. It's more likely that Turkey would have had sanctions.

Greece signed a treaty which is based on essentially Crete's EEZ. Not even Rhodes' EEZ is applied. I don't understand, nor believe, that Turkey ever thought of drilling there. A hypothetical EEZ between Turkey and Lybia was hilarious, even the Greek mainland is closer to the Eastern most frontier of Lybia than is Turkey.

The playing field is east of Crete and Rhodes where there are essentially a few small Greek islands which still have EEZ rights by international law. You are a Dutch Turk, have a look at The Dutch exclusive economic zone all over the Caribbean.

https://www.defensie.nl/onderwerpen/...het-koninkrijk

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Turkey's position is that islands have no continental shelf and thus no right to an EEZ. This is of course totally contrary International Law and all the ICJ rulings concerning EEZ delimitations between mainlands and islands.

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Greece/Egypt vs Turkey war in the future?

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For those who argue that Kastelorizo complex hasn't EEZ because "is far from mainland Greece and near the Turkish shore":



Kastelorizo has both industry , tourism , native population , etc and it has EEZ







Kastelorizo is not 500km from Greexe, as Turks often say because Kastelorizo, wither they like it or not, it is Greece.
It is sovereign land.
And the EEZ it generates is closer to Kasteloriozo than it is to to Turkish mainland.
So Kastelorizo EEZ dominates.

Kastelorizo is not far from Greece, kastelorizo IS Greece !

And while Turkey is focusing on Kastellorizo to distract us, it wants the same treatment for all the other Greek islands (ie zero effect on EEZ). Turkey doesn't even acknowledge the EEZ of Rhodes Karpathos or even Crete and Cyprus!