“Some areas violate the country’s maritime jurisdiction,” Ankara claims
Announcement-reaction to The maritime spatial planning announced by Greece The Turkish Foreign Ministry has released.
The announcement of the Turkish Foreign Ministry is as follows:
“Some of the areas specified in the maritime spatial planning (MSS) announced by Greece, as a result of EU law, violate our country’s maritime jurisdiction in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean.
We emphasize once again that its unilateral actions and claims Greece They will have no legal consequence for our country.
Recall that unilateral actions should be avoided in closed or semi -seas, such as the Aegean and the Mediterranean, that the International Law of the Sea encourages cooperation, including environmental issues, among the rough states in this seas and in this seas.
The aforementioned actions and efforts to create committed, as in the past, so in the present and the future, will not have legal consequences for our country.
OR Turkey It maintains in its relations with Greece its position that a honest and overall approach to resolve problems on the basis of international law, justice and good neighborly, in the context of the Athens Declaration of Friendship and Good Neighborhood Relations of December 2023, must be adopted.
The maritime spatial planning of our country is also transmitted to UNESCO and the competent UN services. “