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Greece-Egypt deal on Exclusive Economic Zone posted by the UN
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On August 6, an agreement was signed for the partial demarcation of maritime boundaries between Greece and Egypt.
This was posted on the United Nation’s Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea on Thursday and carried out by the organization’s Office of Legal Affairs.
The deal designates an exclusive economic zone in the eastern Mediterranean, which gives the two countries rights over natural resources in the region.
One interpretation of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the East Med.
Greek diplomatic sources said that this action’s importance lies in the speed with which it happened and that the President of the UN General Assembly is Volkan Bozkır, a Turkish national.