Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis spoke by phone again today, Thursday, 22 October, with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty. The discussions focused on the strategic partnership between Greece and Egypt and developments in the Eastern Mediterranean.
According to a post by the Foreign Ministry on X, “the two ministers categorically rejected the ratification by Libya’s House of Representatives of the 2019 Turkey-Libya Memorandum on the Delimitation of Maritime Zones, stressing the importance of international law, including UNCLOS.”
The two ministers agreed to continue consultations aimed at extending the geographic scope of the 2020 EEZ delimitation agreement, in full compliance with international law and UNCLOS.