UNCce responded with anger over the joint Turkish-Libyan agreement to discuss a new delineation of Turkey’s maritime borders which includes waters off the Greek island of Crete.
According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his country’s sovereign waters extend eastward from Libya and include a portion of waters off Crete, as the newly-drawn map Ankara has issued shows. However, the map was not sent to the United Nations.
The move is a blatant violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), since the two countries do not share maritime boundaries. In essence, the agreement between them has no legal validity whatsoever.
The map is presented on Turkish media shows maritime borders as — its government says– “they should be.” One Turkish news website also posted the map in a report with the provocative title, “Historic Turkey-Libya agreement to put an end to Greek occupation of East Med.”
