Egypt–Greece maritime deal

Egypt and Greece signed in summer 2020 a maritime treaty creating an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights in the Mediterranean sea. The deal establishes “partial demarcation of the sea boundaries between the two countries, and that the remaining demarcation would be achieved through consultations.”

Egypt-Greece maritime deal
TypeBoundary delimitation
Signed6 August 2020
LocationCairo, Egypt
Effective10 October 2020
Signatories
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt Sameh Shoukry
  • Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece Nikos Dendias
Parties
Depositaries United Nations Secretariat
LanguagesArabic, Greek, English

The Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias signed the deal in Cairo on 6 August as a response to the 2019 Libya (GNA)–Turkey maritime deal. It was ratified by the Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on October 10 and the Greek Parliament on August 27. On 2 September, the treaty was submitted to the United Nations Secretariat.

In March 2021, after Turkey expressed its will to make an agreement on maritime borders with Egypt, the latter discussed cooperation in Eastern Mediterranean with Greece and aimed for further coordination in other areas such as economic, military and security matters.

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