“If, in this case, two states enter into an agreement at the expense of Greece, then in all cases Greece is not bound by it and, in this sense, it has no legal effect,” Burger noted. “…it is a principle of international law that states cannot conduct transactions with each other at the expense of third parties. We know this also from civil law. “Two parties cannot come to an understanding that something belongs to them and does not belong to some third party,” he said, adding that the principle that two states cannot enter into an agreement at the expense of a third also applies in international law. The German response follows the announcement that Libya’s Tripoli government signed a series of preliminary economic agreements with Turkey on Monday that included potential energy exploration in maritime areas, but Libya’s eastern-based parliament rejected the move.

Source: Libya Today October 06, 2022 17:51 UTC