Cyprus
Annita Demetriou in Athens: “full convergence of views” with Gerapetritis on Cyprus and Libya
The President of the Cypriot House of Representatives held four meetings in Athens in one day, with the foreign minister,…
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Libya
Latest news and analysis on Libya, political developments, armed groups, energy, diplomacy and security in North Africa.
Cyprus
Cyprus writes to Guterres on the illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum: a “non-existent maritime boundary” and “deliberate escalation”
The Republic of Cyprus has taken its reaction to the approval of the illegal 2019 Turkish-Libyan memorandum to the UN.…
Greek-Turkish Relations
Illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum: Greece writes to UN Secretary-General Guterres, Egypt repeats its flat rejection to Fidan
Greece sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the illegal 2019 Turkish-Libyan memorandum after its approval by Libya’s…
Analysis
F-14 Tomcat and Top Gun: the fighter, the school and the film that built the legend of the US Navy
The F-14 Tomcat was designed to defend US carriers from Soviet bombers, but it became a global symbol through the…
Cyprus
Israel’s Saar tells Cyprus’ Kombos the Turkish–Libyan memorandum harms regional states, as Christodoulides asks the EU to revive its mutual defence clause
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar spoke by phone with Cyprus’ Konstantinos Kombos about the Turkish–Libyan memorandum, which he said harms…
Cyprus
EU “strongly regrets” Libyan ratification of the Turkish–Libyan memorandum: Kallas restates that it infringes third states’ rights
In a formal statement on 21 October, High Representative Kaja Kallas said the EU strongly regrets Libya’s ratification of the…
Greek-Turkish Relations
Turkish Defence Ministry to Greece and the EU: “Unilateral assessments by third parties” do not invalidate the Turkish–Libyan memorandum
Turkey’s Defence Ministry said at its weekly briefing that “unilateral assessments by third parties cannot remove the legal force” of…
Greece
Greece and Egypt to continue consultations on extending the 2020 EEZ delimitation – a joint answer to the Turkish–Libyan memorandum
Foreign Ministers George Gerapetritis and Badr Abdelatty rejected the ratification of the 2019 Turkey–Libya memorandum and agreed to continue consultations…
Greece
State Department on the Turkish–Libyan memorandum: “good-faith negotiations” – while Greece raises it at the UN Security Council
Responding to a question from Greek public broadcaster ERT, a State Department spokesperson urged “partners in the Eastern Mediterranean” to…
Greek-Turkish Relations
Ankara hits back at Israel over the Turkish–Libyan memorandum: its “disinformation” office calls the charge of destabilising the Eastern Mediterranean “clear disinformation”
The Turkish Presidency’s Center for Combating Disinformation called Israel’s statement that Turkey is destabilising the Eastern Mediterranean “clear disinformation”, posting…
Politics & Diplomacy
Egypt stands with international law: Cairo rejects the Turkish–Libyan memorandum as “absolutely null and void” – a firm answer to revisionism and a boost for Athens and Nicosia
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry rejected the Libyan House’s ratification of the Turkish–Libyan memorandum as absolutely null and void, citing the Law…
Europe
Kallas to Fidan: the Turkish–Libyan memorandum “violates the sovereign rights of third states”
EU High Representative Kaja Kallas raised the Libyan House’s ratification of the Turkish–Libyan memorandum with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan…