Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said his country is looking forward to an agreement to demarcate exclusive economic zones with…
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A gas pipeline connecting Libya to Greece is “useless”, according to the Ministry of Oil and Gas of the Libyan Government of National Unity, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.
The American Exxon Mobil oil and gas company will start conducting seismic surveys in two blocks southwest of Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula and the island of Crete in the coming days, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday.
The US is open to the possibility of an energy interconnection between Greece and Libya, a State Department spokesperson stated, according to Greek Reporter newspaper.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Friday reiterated criticism of last month’s deal between Turkey and Libya’s Tripoli government on energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.
The United Nations has concerns over the tensions between Greece and Turkey in light of the latter’s deal with Libya on the Mediterranean borders, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General Farhan Haq told reporters during briefing on Tuesday.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias briefed his European counterparts on the agreement between Turkey and the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity on the exploitation of maritime zones and their resources during A meeting the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said that the memorandum of understanding signed between the Libyan outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU) and Turkey is illegal and rejected by the international community.
Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, called on the international community not to deal with the Libyan outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU), led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, after it failed in its mandated tasks, calling on the United Nations to take clear measures against its illegality.
Ankara is trying to “fabricate a reality around something that is illegal” and is “ignoring the international context,” Greek government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou said on Tuesday, a day after Turkey signed a preliminary agreement with Libya for oil and natural gas exploration on Libyan soil and in the country’s maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ).