Athens sends Libya government a verbal notice

The Greek Foreign Ministry has reiterated Greece's readiness for negotiations with the Libyan government that will emerge after elections are held there on the delimitation of the maritime zones, based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The Foreign Ministry conveyed Athens' intentions in a verbal notice delivered to the Libyan Embassy, refuting the unsubstantiated allegations made by the Tripoli government's openly pro-Turkish Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and his associates concerning the "illegal" actions of the Sanco Swift, the vessel carrying out seismic surveys south of the Peloponnese and west and southwest of Crete. 

The note stressed that the Sanco Swift is conducting research in areas under Greek jurisdiction in full compliance with all the rules of the International Law of the Sea, while also underlining that "the...