Turkey, Libya maritime agreement sent to UN, Çavuşoğlu says

Turkey's Foreign Ministry Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that Turkey’s maritime boundary delimitation agreement with Libya was sent to the United Nations on Wednesday. 

The deal   signed by the president and was ratified by the parliament and published on Saturday’s Official Gazette, going into effect.

On 28 November, President Erdoğan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Istanbul with the Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord of Libya. Feyyad al-Sarraj, to demarcate maritime zones in the Eastern Mediterranean on an area between Turkey and Libya, as part of Turkey's notion of Blue Homeland.

This agreement drew condemnation by both Greece and the international community, including the European union, USA, Russia, Egypt, France, Israel, Arap League and the Libyan opposition, led by the Libyan House of Representative and Khalifa Hafter, the head of the so-called Libyan National Army, as a violation of the International Law of the Sea and the Skhirat Agreement. (ILKHA)