Libya

Five Libyan lawyers appealed to the competent court in Tripoli against the memorandum

Mangoush is essentially considered a “persona non grata” by Athens after she signed another outlandish MoU with Erdogan-led Turkey last month in Tripoli, on behalf of the Government of National Unity

Tripoli was not initially on the itinerary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Libya

In an announcement, the Élysée Palace noted that the meeting was an opportunity to review bilateral issues, especially concerning Libya, ahead of the 12 November conference on Libya that will be hosted by Macron in Paris.

Diplomatic sources estimate that an important development that took place at the UN General Assembly is the fact that Germany accepted the participation of Greece as an observer country in the Ministerial Conference on Libya.

The minister of Foreign Affairs the United Arab Emirates considers that Ankara is a major destabilizing power in the Mediterranean and the wider Middle East and that the politicization of religion poses a great risk

Turkey occupied part of Syria thanks to an agreement with the US and Russia and it signed an illegal agreement supposedly delimiting the two countries’ EEZ’s, even though they are not contiguous.

All of his actions regarding the pandemic highlighted Erdogan’s weaknesses. At first he refused to take protective measures against the epidemic. He ignored the warnings of scientists.

Even if the EU does decide to offer more money, it’s not clear it will be sufficient to assuage Turkey or be the kind of support that Ankara, which is simultaneously involved in conflicts in Syria and Libya, really wants.

'It is imperative that the international law of the sea, the principle of good neighbourly relations and the sovereignty and sovereign rights over the maritime zones of all neighbouring coastal states, including those generated by their islands, need to be respected,'Josep Borrell stated on behalf of the Commission.

Erdogan declared that if Greece does not concern itself with Turkey it has nothing to fear from Ankara, meaning that Athens should disregard its sovereign rights and ignore the illegal Libya-Turkey accord delimiting their putative EEZs.

Mitsotakis accused Erdogan of using migrants and refugees as leverage to implement his geopolitical designs, as Ankara is threatening to unleash a new wave of refugees and migrants to Europe.

The Greek government has offered to send a peace-keeping force once the internecine conflict has ended. That would reportedly involve sending a ship to Libya to help manage the migrant crisis.

France issued its own separate statement backing Greece’s position that the Libya-Turkey accord is null and void.

Can any US or EU involvement be effective and if not to what degree can Greece handle a protracted crisis with a hostile neighbour who has no compunction about making fresh demands at every opportunity?

In contrast with the State Department Trump avoided any criticism of Turkey for its intervention in Libya or on the Libya-Turkey EEZ accord that expropriates large swathes of Greece’s EEZ.

Ankara (which already has established military presence in Libya) and Tripoli also signed a defence pact which is the pretext for Turkey’s planned broader intervention.

“We want to be part of a solution in Libya because it concerns us as well. We are geographically closer than Turkey and if there were another government in Libya we could discuss delimiting the EEZ," the PM said.

Ankara has used as a pretext an invitation that the Tripoli government issued for military assistance from Ankara.

Greece is working to create a security umbrella including Israel and Cyprus in the face of Turkey’s hostile actions in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.