Turkish naval and land  pure hooliganism  ... seeking to expand influence at expense of Europe

Greece and Italy signed an agreement on May 9 to demarcate their maritime borders under Turkish orgy, in the Mediterranean region on the rights of natural resources, in order to establish an exclusive economic zone between the two countries.
The agreement is an important step that will have major repercussions on the eastern region of the  Mediterranean, which Turkey is seeking to control by force, coveted in the oil and gas fields that were discovered in the region as of 2009 when Israel found gas deposits deep inside and Cyprus began exploration in 2011.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement that the agreement that was signed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a visit to Athens by Italian Foreign Minister Luigi de Mayo addressed a case that had been pending for 40 years.

"Today is a good day for Greece, Italy, Europe and the entire Mediterranean region," Mitsotakis said, adding that the agreement is in line with international law and the United Nations Convention on the Oceans and the Law of the Sea.

For his part, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dundas said after signing the agreement with de Mayo that the agreement draws the boundaries of the exclusive economic zone - the maritime region in which the state has the right to explore energy and use marine resources - between the two neighbors, as well as the settlement of fishing rights, and added, "Today is a historic day."

Dundias noted that the agreement confirmed the right of the Greek islands in the marine areas and the resolution of the issues related to fishing rights, adding that Athens seeks to establish exclusive economic zones with all its neighbors.

Analysts regard this agreement in principle as a positive step, the associate professor at the Greek University of the Peloponnese and head of the Center for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Sotiris Roussos spoke to our News Agency and said: "The Greek-Italian agreement on delimiting the boundaries of their exclusive economic zone is in principle a positive step. "

Any agreement should not be imposed by force and unilaterally, and in this context Roussos stressed that issues related to the exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean can be resolved through bilateral negotiations based on international law and not on the threat or use of violence.
In terms of the economic benefit of this agreement, Roussos said, "There are no immediate economic results of the agreement, as there are no oil and gas exploration or research operations by either country in this field, as Greece is searching for potential oil and gas fields within its territorial waters." However, Roussos expected the agreement to create a positive environment for resolving other outstanding issues such as the demarcation of the exclusive economic zone between Greece and Albania.

The Greek-Italian agreement comes after Turkey and the Libyan government of Fayez al-Sarraj signed last November an agreement on maritime borders that angered Greece, which considered the move an infringement of its sovereign rights, which was strongly opposed by Greece, Egypt and Cyprus and considered it illegal.

 At the time, he called the Greek Foreign Minister, to consider the agreement between Turkey and the Libyan Accord Government on security cooperation and the demarcation of the borders of the maritime spheres of influence illegal.

He also pointed out that the agreement between Ankara and Tripoli violates international law and state sovereignty in the Mediterranean region and destabilizes the situation in Libya and the region in general.

Therefore, Soros says, "It is difficult to imagine that the Greek government did not have the Turkish-Libyan agreement in mind when it signed the agreement with Italy, although the Greek side accepted the somewhat unbalanced provisions regarding Italian fishing in Greek territorial waters and the limited impact of the small Greek islands on exclusive economic zone. "

However, Soros says, "other than its symbolism that we mentioned earlier, there is no practical impact on the demarcation of the Turkish-Libyan economic region and does not provide tools or measures to thwart Turkish bullying in the eastern Mediterranean."

Soros believes that Turkey at the present time is trying to establish its presence in Libya, ruling that Ankara will be able to control the tribes, politicians and militias that will allow it to control the flow of migrants through Libya.

Regarding the analyzes that say that if Turkey enabled its presence in Libya, it would seek to provoke Italy by threatening to send migrants to it as it had done with Greece before, the Greek researcher considered that Ankara's first and last goal is to strengthen the Turkish domination in the eastern Mediterranean, but he stressed that Rome will not You bow to these policies of spreading chaos on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

In particular, Greece and Cyprus signed the agreement in a tense diplomatic confrontation with Turkey over the rights of exploration in the Mediterranean.
Earlier, at the end of a ministerial meeting in Cairo, Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, and France issued a joint statement, in which they considered Al-Sarraj-Erdogan agreement signed in November "in violation of Security Council resolutions" and "undermining the stability of the region" .

The Ministers noted that these two notes have further undermined regional stability, and that both are null and void.

Egypt, Cyprus and Greece did not recognize the agreement signed between Al-Saraj and Erdogan, and they considered it a violation of international laws, and an attack on the rights of those eastern Mediterranean countries.

The European Union also expressed concern about the Memorandum of Influence in the Mediterranean concluded between Turkey and the Libyan Government of Concord.

"We discussed this memorandum, and it is clear that it raises serious concern to us," the High Commissioner for Foreign Policy and European Security, Josep Borrell, said after the EU foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels.

Washington also condemned, in the words of one of the officials, the memorandum of understanding signed between Turkey and the Libyan Accord Government, which it considered provocative and worrisome.

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ANHA