Greece's angry letter to the UN over Libya's declaration of a border zone – “The illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum follows
In a letter submitted to the UN on January 17, Greece describes its move as contrary to International Law and the Law of the Sea
Libya to submit its own letter to the UN declaring a border zone, following the illegal
Turkish-Libyan memorandum.
As ERT's diplomatic editor Nikos Meletis notes, with its letter, Greece states that the coordinates and the map contained in the Libyan letter are against International Law and the Law of the Sea for three reasons:
a) because it closes the Gulf of Sirte, a move Greece has opposed since 1974,
b) uses straight baselines – Greece has opposed this as well since 2005 – which are also against International Law, and
c) mainly, because the coordinates submitted by Libya follow the illegal demarcation of the Turkish-Libyan memorandum of 2019.
Greece takes this opportunity to reiterate that the Turkish-Libyan memorandum is illegal and contrary to International Law and that any moves made based on the coordinates it provides are illegal.
He also points out that such moves do not prejudge the rights provided by International Law for Greece and expresses the well-known Greek position that any problems with demarcations in the Eastern Mediterranean must be resolved peacefully on the basis of International Law and the Law of the Sea.
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