January 24, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Greece’s has protested Libya ’s recent decision to declare a 24-nautical mile contiguous zone, extending beyond its 12-nautical mile territorial sea, saying it violates international law in three key respects. In the letter which is dated 17. January 2024, Greece’s representative …
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September 19, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Greek General Staff of National Defense (GEETHA) released the names and the pictures of the three soldiers who were killed in the horrific car accident in Libya. It is noted that the other two victims were translators, the son and the daughter of the president of the Greek community …
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September 18, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s government spokesman, Pavlos Marinakis, left open the options for the tragedy in Libya where three members of the Armed Forces and two civilians were killed in what is attributed to a road accident on Sunday. “First of all let me express my sorrow for the loss of these five …
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September 18, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Five Greeks, members of the humanitarian mission of the Greek Armed Forces to flood-stricken Libya were killed in a traffic accident on Sunday. Another 13 people were injure with seven of them being in critical condition. The Armed Forces declared a 3-day mourning. The injured Greeks were transported back to …
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May 4, 2023
Greece, Politics
In a letter to the United Nations secretary-general, Greece’s permanent representative to the UN, Evangelos Sekeris, expressed Athens’ complete opposition to Libya’s claims regarding the limits of its maritime zones, as reflected in a verbal communication from the Tripoli government to Cairo. According to Greek diplomatic sources on Thursday, Libya …
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January 10, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s Foreign Ministry delivered a note verbale to the Libyan embassy in Athens, refuting claims of ‘illegal’ actions by seismic research vessel ‘Sanco Swift’, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. According to the ministry, the maritime research south of the Peloponnese and southwest of Crete is carried out in regions of …
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December 14, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, World
Egypt ‘s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a Presidential degree demarcating the maritime border of the country to the West, that is with Libya. With the drawing of a straight line, al-Sisi unilaterally determines the maritime borders with Libya, practically cutting through the illegal Turkey-Libya memorandum on the Exclusive Economic …
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December 7, 2022
Politics, World
Libya has reacted to Greece’s decision to expand out seismic surveys for hydrocarbon south of Crete. The foreign minister of the Tripoli-based outgoing government accused Athens of exploiting the crisis in the North African country and imposing a fait accompli in defining the Libyan-Greek maritime borders. “Greece has conducted contracts …
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December 2, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece has submitted a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlining the background of the illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum. The Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN, Maria Theofili, underlined in the letter that “Greece maintains all its rights under international law and calls on Libya and Turkey to respect the …
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November 22, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The fishing boat with 430 migrants onboard was towed to Skala Palaiochoras where it docked at 2 o’ clock Tuesday afternoon after a big rescue operation. According to state broadcaster ERT, three of the 100 children in total suffered faint incidents and were transferred to the local hospital with ambulances. …
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November 17, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A serious diplomatic incident took place in Libya on Thursday morning with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias to have cancelled his visit to Tripoli right after his plane had landed at the local airport. The FM, the delegation and journalists did not even got off the plane that continued to …
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November 6, 2022
Politics, World
The US State Department is open to the possibility of an energy interconnection between Greece and Libya. The US State Department spokesperson said that the US continues to support projects that promote the energy interconnection of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa with Europe. The US ministry clarified that it …
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October 3, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Libya’s Tripoli government signed a preliminary deal on energy exploration on Monday, prompting Greece and Egypt to say they would oppose any activity in disputed areas of the eastern Mediterranean. Libya’s eastern-based parliament, which backs an alternative administration, also rejected the deal. Speaking at a ceremony in Tripoli, Turkish Foreign …
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July 24, 2022
environment
The smoke from the forest fires on the island of Lesvos and the Natural Park Dadia in Evros, north-eastern Greece, has been consolidated and has reached the coast of Libya in North Africa. According to the director of the National Meteorological Service (EMY), Thodoris Kolidas, the smoke from the fire …
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July 6, 2021
Greece
Greece inaugurated its consulate in Benghazi on Monday, in the presence of a delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Kostas Fragogiannis and the local Greek community. Greece is the first country to have a consular representation in “We are the first country to have consular representation in Benghazi,” Fragogiannis …
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July 2, 2021
Greece, Politics
“All foreign forces and mercenaries must leave the territory of Libya” was sent on Friday during the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Libya, Aguila Saleh said in a joint message on Friday. “What is needed – and you represent it in …
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June 3, 2021
Greece
Greece has expressed its strong dissatisfaction that Germany excluded Athens form the Berlin Conference on Libya. “We are extremely dissatisfied with the fact that Germany, insisting on a tactic, did not invite us to the Berlin Conference this time as well”, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Thursday. He underlined …
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April 14, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece and Libya have agreed to hold talks on marking out their maritime zones in the Mediterranean Sea, Prime Minister Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, after a meeting with the president of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi. In a statement after the meeting, Mitsotakis said the two leaders “agreed on …
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April 13, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
During his visit to Libya, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias raised the issue of maritime border demarcation saying that the memorandum signed between Turkey and the previous Libyan government was “illegal.” He implied that the two countries may proceed with delineation of mutual maritime borders in the Mediterranean Sea. And he …
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August 2, 2020
Politics, World
Egypt said that part of a seismic survey planned by Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean potentially encroached on waters where Cairo claims exclusive rights. An advisory issued last month by Turkey for the survey overlaps with Egypt’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), constituting “a violation and an attack on Egypt’s sovereign …
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