The agreement was also rejected by the eastern Libyan parliament, which supports the government Fathi Bashagha. The Turkish Foreign Minister said Born Çavuşoğlu and the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Naglaa Al-Manqush At a ceremony in Tripoli, the deal is one of several agreements in a memorandum of understanding on economic issues aimed at benefiting both countries. It was not immediately clear whether any projects would in fact appear that involved drilling in the “exclusive economic zone”, which Turkey and a previous government agreed on in Tripoli In 2019, angering eastern countries The Mediterranean Sea the other. From the perspective of this exclusive economic zone, the two countries share a maritime border, which was rejected by Greece and Cyprus and criticized by Egypt and Israel. Asked if other countries might object to the new MOU, Çavuşoğlu said: “We don’t care what they think.”“Other countries have no right to interfere,” he added.

Source: Libya Today October 04, 2022 21:42 UTC