Greece announces plans for maritime use, Irving neighboring Turkey

Greece announced plans for activities in maritime areas, such as tourism, offshore energy drill, fishing and environmental fishing, irking neighboring Turkey, which said the plans tease in its competence

Athens, Greece – Greece announced plans for human activity management in maritime areas, such as tourism, offshore drilling energy, fishing and Environmental protectionIrishbing neighboring Turkey, which said the plans represented from its competence.

The announcement of the Naval Planning of Greece came after the Earth was taken over by the European Court of Justice this year because it did not abolish plans to the European Commission, as all Member States of the European Union. Spatial planning of marine areas is considered necessary for sustainable use of marine resources, setting where activities are like transport, tourismFishing and renewable energy can take place and for the protection of sea areas.

But the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated that some areas listed in the Greece “violate the maritime responsibilities of our country in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean”.

Although NATO are allies, Greece and Turkey in logers for years over borders on the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, with An escalating tension Bringing them close to the war several times in the last decades. One of the main content between the two is the delimitation of the continental shelf – the share of the sea floor which belongs to each country, as well as with the limits of each exclusive economic zone.

Greece has agreements that establish their exclusive economic zones with Italy and Egypt, but not with Turkey.

“We would like to remind the need to avoid unilateral actions in closed or semi-digested seas,” Turkish Foreign Affairs encourages cooperation between coastal countries, including in this context, is always ready to cooperate with Greece in the Aegean Sea. “

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that maritime spatial planning is separate from the demarcation of the exclusive economic zone. In a series of explanations published on their website, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it is still aimed at maintaining dialogue with Turkey.

“To solve the problems with the past from the past, we do not ask for Greek-Turkish dialogue. Not to say that we do not talk,” said the ministry. “Greece wants a positive climate in relations with Turkey.”