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.
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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).
The foreign ministers of Greece and Egypt has challenged the legitimacy of the Libyan outgoing government led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh on signing energy memoranda of understanding with Turkey.
Five people were arrested on a Greek island Tuesday and charged with trying to smuggle nearly a hundred migrants into Europe on an unsafe vessel last week, using what appears to be a new direct sea route from crisis-afflicted Lebanon to Italy, Associated Press reported.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias renewed his country’s criticism of the maritime deal signed with Libya, under the government of former Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj, and Turkey in 2019.
Stephanie Williams, the U.N. Advisor on Libya, met on Tuesday with Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Rome for discussion regarding the Libyan situation.
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Libyan First Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Al-Qatrani discussed with the Greek Ambassador to Libya Ioannis Stamatikos the bilateral relations between the two countries.
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Libya and Greece on Saturday discussed launching direct flights between them and other means to boost bilateral ties.
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