Egypt’s parliament refers Cairo-Athena maritime border demarcation deal to constitutional committee

CAIRO – 17 August 2020: Egypt’s House of Representatives on Monday referred the recently-signed maritime border demarcation deal with Egypt and Greece in the EEZ in the Mediterranean Sea to the constitutional committee at the house.

On August 6, 2020, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias, on Thursday signed the agreement.

The deal made the controversial Turkish-Libyan maritime demarcation in the Mediterranean null and valid, according to several Egyptian experts. In November 2019, Turkey and the government of National Accord in Libya, the matter that rejected by Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, and by the Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar.

Cypriot newspaper Financial Mirror quoted diplomatic sources the Egyptian-Greek deal is the first step of a process of filing the issue to the International Maritime Tribunal or the International Criminal Court.