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The first discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean were made between June 1999 and February 2000 offshore Israel. In 2003 Shell made the first significant discoveries of gas, offshore Egypt. [30] In February 2003 an EEZ delineation agreement was signed between Republic of Cyprus and Egypt. [30]
On October 1, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, registered the Turkey-GNA deal on the delimitation of maritime jurisdiction areas in the Mediterranean. The agreement "has been registered with the Secretariat, in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations," said the certificate of registration.
The 2020 Greek–Turkish maritime crisis began in July 2020, in the eastern Aegean Sea. The Turkish government announced a NAVTEX which was called illegal by both governments in Greece and Cyprus , and brought the two nations at their closest to war since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, and the Imia crisis in 1996.
Eastern Mediterranean Maritime, manager of the Malta-flagged Elbella container ship, declined comment. Reuters was not immediately able to reach the owner or manager for the Cyprus-flagged AAL ...
Egypt and Greece signed in summer 2020 a maritime treaty creating an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights in the Mediterranean sea.The deal establishes “partial demarcation of the sea boundaries between the two countries, and that the remaining demarcation would be achieved through consultations.” [1]
On 28 November 2019, President Erdoğan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Istanbul with the Prime Minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord of Libya (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, to demarcate maritime zones in the Eastern Mediterranean on an area between Turkey and Libya, appearing to "write [the Greek island of] Crete ...
The eastern Mediterranean region is commonly interpreted in two ways: The Levant , including its historically tied neighboring countries, Balkans and islands of Greece. The region of Syria with the island of Cyprus (also known as the Levant ), Egypt , Greek Dodecanese and Anatolian Turkey .
Greece forms the southernmost part of the Balkan peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. It includes many small islands which vary between 1,200 and 6,000 in the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea. [2] The largest islands are Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios.