Presidential decree by which Egypt unilaterally demarcates its maritime borders with Libya, the country’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed yesterday. A move that is estimated to ignore the Turkish-Libyan memorandum.
The journalist of ERT, Nikos Meletis, reported in the central news bulletin of ERT: According to the first image we have from the coordinates that have been made public, this demarcation line follows the logic and the line of the Greek-Egyptian agreement on the delimitation of the EEZ and indeed moves and stops still south of the midline between Crete and Egypt. If we also see the maps that will be published in the Egyptian Government Gazette and these first indications are confirmed, this will be the second practical challenge by Egypt to the illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum, after the agreement signed by Egypt with Greece for the delimitation of the EEZ .
In fact, this demarcation is done in a way from the first picture we have, which essentially leaves a trinational point between Greece, Egypt and Libya to the north to be negotiated. And this is essentially a pressure on the Libyan side to negotiate with both Athens and Egypt based on the questioning of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum.
This comes after yesterday’s statements by Mr. Cavusoglu, who boasted that Libya is resisting Greek pressure and Greek investigations, and is also a message to Ankara, which is trying to take advantage of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum to impose sanctions against Greece. .
Source: News Beast
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