In the hands of his secretary -general UN Delivered yesterday the verbal of Greece, which responds to the corresponding Libyan Declaration of June 20 and rejects all the allegations of violating Libyan sovereign rights by the licensing of the two plots south of Crete. At the same time, he replies and In Libya’s attempt to unilaterally draw the midlinecovering the whole of Greek EEZas reflected in the maps submitted to the UN on May 27 (and for which a new verbal decline from Greece will be sent).
Athens, however, in a coordinated move, delivered a verbal decoration yesterday. Tripoliwith which – in follow of contacts in Libya by Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis – Calls on the Libyan side to substantially respond to its commitment to launch a dialogue on the demarcation of the maritime zones. Athens, in fact, announced in Tripoli the Negotiating teaminviting her to define her own so that the negotiations can be launched. Head of the Greek team is set by Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou and the Ambassador will participate as members Andreas toastDirector of Political Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, SPII Fivos GeorgakakisDirector of the A6 Directorate of Arab Countries and the Middle East, and two executives of the Special Legal Service, led by Legal Adviser A, Al. Colliop.
In its replying verbalization, which was prepared by its competent officials Foreign Ministry and the lawyers of the CSI under the coordination of George Gerapetritis, Athens rejects all of its allegations Libyapointing out that the maritime plots are within the Greek continental shelf/EEZ and under Greek jurisdiction, in accordance with the law of the sea.
It should be noted that plots have been delimited on the average line between Greece and Libya and in accordance with the part -time EEZ -EEZ delineation agreement.
Still rejected the Libya claims for other plots west and southwest of Cretepointing out that the licenses were issued as early as 2014 and 2017, with no reaction from Libya.
The Greek verbal rejection fully rejects, with legal arguments, and its claims Libya As formulated in its decoration on June 20 and had been unilaterally imprinted on the deposition of the other verbal diagnosis of June 27, with the presentation and map on the “external boundaries” of its EEZ, which overlap the entire Greek EEZ and reach almost outside the territorial waters of Crete.
Athens points out that with this unilateral action of Libya to determine its external boundaries EEZ of her, attempts to completely ignore the sovereign rights of Greece, violated the Sea law and is essentially based on illegal turquoise and in the monomer closure of the Gulf of Sirta, which Greece has complained to the UN.
Re -answers again to the Turkish Memorandum, Athens points out in the verbal diarrhea that this memorandum “completely ignores the existence of numerous Greek islands, such as Crete and the Dodecanese, and violates their right to produce sea zones. It does not produce legal results and does not create any legal effect, neither for its alleged parties, nor for Greece, nor for any other third state. “
Athens also recording its position on “midline“, Stressing that, in the absence of maritime zone delineation agreements, the outer boundaries of the Greek continental shelf and the EEZ (when it is declared) is the midline, each point of which it is equal to the nearest points of the basic lines (continental and islanders), from which it is measured, September 2020 of the permanent representative of Greece to the Secretary General (A/75/375).
In the Greek verbal decoration, Athens, however, states that it “records” the Libyan side’s intention for dialogue and negotiation. In this context, there was, of course, coordination, so that its performance is almost simultaneously romance to Tripoli To appoint the Technical Committee, which will take over the negotiation, now putting the “ball” on Tripoli’s terrain.
Although the Greek answer is typically pending and In Libya’s verbal decoration of May 27which announced unilaterally and illegally the “external boundaries” of Libyan EEZ, yesterday’s Greek verbal diarrhea responds substantially to all Libyan claims and claims, which are lined with the maximalist approaches of Tripoli and Ankara and Ankara and Ankara.
What does the Greek verbal diaphragm say: