Maritime Boundaries Between Greece And Cyprus

maritime boundaries between Greece and Cyprus

The strategic relevance of the Greek and Cypriot EEZs can be further perceived if noted that Greece and Cyprus stand at the crossroad of three continents and jointly share a common border with another ten countries, out of which with eight of them common sea borders also exist. This modification of the Mediterranean geography is certainly directly related to the application to issues of fisheries, circular economy renewable energy policies and offshore energy challenges. However, if we further consider the outlook shaped in the offshore production of hydrocarbons in Greece, Cyprus and Israel, briefly portrayed by the ex-Greek PM as having the potential to cover half of the needs in natural gas in Europe in the coming 30 years, we realize that it is no hyperbole to consider the Mediterranean as the Middle-East of the 21st century.

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Maritime Boundaries Between Greece And Egypt

maritime boundaries between Greece and Egypt

On August 6, 2020, Greece and Egypt signed an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement in Cairo delimiting their maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean. This recent move came after Turkey had temporarily suspended the activities of its seismic research vessel Oruç Reis as a de-escalatory gesture to open up space for diplomatic negotiations with Greece as part of Germany’s mediation efforts. As such, Athens’s recent move undermined these efforts and once more bore witness to Greece’s intransigence.

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Maritime Boundaries Between Greece And Turkey

maritime boundaries between Greece and Turkey

Turkey and Greece has Unsettled median lines between their own maritime borders. In 2018, Former Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said Greece is ready to extend its territorial waters from 6 to 12 nautical miles. In the first stage, he said, Greece will expand its sovereignty towards the west from the Diapontia Islands, a cluster of small islands in the Ionian Sea, to Antikythera, an island lying between the Peloponnese and Crete. But the plan is to also do the same in the Aegean.

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Maritime Boundaries Between Greece And Libya

Maritime boundaries between Greece and Libya

Till now Greece and Libya hasn’t achieve to any agreement about maritime boundaries and all the maritime border between them based on their unilateral statements. some disputed situation raise from this point that Greece and turkey has many challenge about their maritime zone. for example Greece take EEZ for own island in eastern Mediterranean sea, but turkey has opposite idea. for this reason they have unsettled issue on the Mediterranean zone.

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