Government spokesperson Stelios Petsas on Tuesday announced that the Greek foreign ministry has sent letters to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the presidency of the Security Council on Monday, in which it outlines Greece’s positions on the Turkish-Libyan memoranda and presents the legal arguments that support its case, based on the International Law of the Sea, ANA reports.
The letter to the Security Council presidency points out that the Turkey-Libya agreement was drawn up in bad faith and violates the Law of the Sea since the maritime zones of Turkey and Libya are not adjacent and there is no common maritime border between the two countries. In addition, it points out, the agreement does not take into account the Greek islands and their right to have maritime zones (continental shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone). It says that the agreement is invalid since it has not been approved by the Libyan parliament, as attested to by a letter from the Libyan Parliament speaker to the UN Secretary-General. For this reason, the letter notes, Greece rejects the entire agreement as invalid and not capable of affecting Greek sovereign rights.
It also points out that the signature of the “Agreement” disrupts peace and security in the region and asks that this be pointed out to the Security Council so that it might condemn the deal as contrary to international legality and call on Turkey and Libya to abstain from any act that might violate Greece’s sovereign rights and escalate tension in the region.
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