Greece is sending a letter to the UN Secretary General, in which it completely deconstructs Turkey’s unilateral and non-existent objections to the Aegean islands, according to diplomatic sources. The letter will be delivered to the UN Secretary General within the next few hours, the same sources noted.
“Vima” presents the main points of the Greek letter to the UN.
According to the Greek government, in its letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the Turkish government claims that “Greek sovereignty over the islands [του Ανατολικού Αιγαίου] under the Lausanne (1923) and Paris (1947) treaties are “legally, historically and factually unsupported”. It is noted in this regard that Ankara insists that arising from its exercise – in this case the rights of islands in maritime zones.
As “Vima” continues, Athens refers to two legal cases that have been adjudicated by the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) to clarify that the borders and territorial sovereignty formed by international treaties can not be challenged. The two cases are a) that between Cambodia and Thailand for the Preah Vihear temple (Case Concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear, Cambodia v. Thailand, Judgment of 15 June 1962) and b) that between Libya and Chad (Territorial Dispute, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya / Chad, Judgment of 3 February 1994).
According to the first hypothesis, “when two countries define a border between themselves”, the primary purpose of the treaties defining borders and territorial sovereignty is “to achieve stability and finality”, as stated on page 34 of the decision. In addition, this is the reason why even after the signing of such a treaty, the result of defining a border or territorial sovereignty does not depend on the relevant treaty, but acquires an autonomous “life”. As the ICC itself emphasized in the Libya / Chad case, “the definition of a border is an event which, from the outset, has its own legal life” (the establishment of [a] boundary is a fact which, from the outset, has had a legal life of its own) and “a boundary established by a treaty achieves a permanence which the treaty itself does not necessarily enjoy” (a boundary established by treaty thus achieves a permanence which the treaty itself does not necessarily enjoy).
“Therefore”, clarifies Athens, “any attempt to challenge the sovereignty of Greece in these islands on the unfounded condition that Greece allegedly violates its obligation to demilitarize them under the aforementioned treaties (ss. Lausanne and Paris to the fundamental principle of international law concerning the stability of borders and the titles of sovereignty, as confirmed by international case law “. Following this position, Athens emphasizes that all islands have full rights in all maritime zones without the slightest legal dispute.
As “Vima” writes, the Greek side naturally rejects all the Turkish argument for selective demilitarization imposed by the Montreux Treaty of 1936, according to which Ankara considers that Lemnos and Samothrace should remain deprivatized, as well as A subsequent attempt by the Turkish side to show that the statement of the then Minister of Foreign Affairs Aras before the Turkish National Assembly (July 31, 1936) that Greece has no obligation to keep Lemnos and Samothrace demilitarized has no legal force.
Also of interest is the Greek response to the attempt to identify the provisions of the 1947 Treaty of Paris on the demilitarization of the Dodecanese with the status of the λανland Islands, invoked by Mr. Sinirlioglou in his letter last September. The invocation of the 1856 Convention for the Demilitarization of the λανland Islands, annexed to the 1856 Paris Peace Treaty, is “completely irrelevant and inapplicable” in the case of the Dodecanese because the 1947 Treaty does not concern a “legal status” on demilitarization “. In addition, Athens reiterates that Turkey is “res inter alios acta” in relation to the 1947 Treaty, Article 89 of which states that “its provisions do not confer any rights and benefits on states that are not Parties”.
The fact that Turkey “calls on other States Parties in these circumstances to call on Greece to comply with their forecasts” confirms “Turkey’s persistent practice of raising issues that have no legal basis, a practice that adds to the country’s instability. it provokes with its actions “. Athens, according to the publication of “Vima”, also reminds of the continuous upgrade and strengthening of the Turkish military forces, the threat of war, but also the issue of recent overflights, emphasizing the relevant provision of Article 13 of the Lausanne Treaty that these should be avoided. Finally, it calls on Ankara to put an end to these movements that contribute to regional instability and to come to an honest solution to the “outstanding dispute” over the delimitation of the continental shelf and the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on the basis of good neighborliness and neighborliness.
Source: Capital
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