Last Updated On: Dec 24 2020 10:44 Gmt+3
An agreement signed on August 6 this year for the partial demarcation of maritime boundaries between Greece and Egypt was posted on the United Nation’s Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea on Thursday, by the organisation’s Office of Legal Affairs.
The deal designates an exclusive economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean, which in turn gives the two countries rights over natural resources in the region.
Greek diplomatic sources said that the importance of this action lies in the speed with which it happened and the fact that the President of the U.N. General Assembly is Volkan Bozkır, a Turkish national.