#Libya

The Republic of Cyprus has reiterated its position that the 2019 Turkey-Libya MoU on maritime delimitation is “null and void”. Speaking during a UN Security Council open debate on emerging technologies ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that the recently signed maritime deal between Libya’s eastern ‌parliament and Turkey was “blatantly illegal, null and void,” adding that it “completely disregards ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed that his country is looking to securing its own interests in pursuing and ensuring the ratification of a maritime jurisdiction agreement with Libya, ...

Libya’s Ministry of Transport said on Monday that airspace restrictions issued by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organisation in 2015 during the country’s civil war have been removed. ...

The Turkish-Libyan memorandum “remains null and void, contrary to international law and cannot serve as a lawful basis for maritime delimitation or produce legal consequences for third states”, Greek Foreign ...

The United States’ state department has criticised the maritime boundary agreement reached between Turkey and Libya, which was ratified by the Libyan parliament last week, as “unconstructive and provocative”. According ...

Turkey is using its maritime agreement with Libya to exert diplomatic pressure on Greece and Cyprus, while establishing a precedent that could eventually be used to challenge the Republic of ...

The Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) has called on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly reject the Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum and clarify that it has no legal effect ...

All 27 EU member states have backed a joint statement rejecting the Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum, which the EU said on Wednesday, “violates the sovereign rights of third States” and “does not ...

Egypt said on Wednesday that it categorically rejects the ratification by the Libyan parliament of a 2019 maritime memorandum with Turkey, warning Ankara that it will not allow its sovereign rights ...

The maritime boundary agreement reached between Turkey and Libya, which was ratified by the Libyan parliament on Tuesday, “infringes on the sovereign rights of third states”, the European Union’s ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Wednesday that the Turkey-Libya maritime memorandum remains invalid and will not be implemented, despite its ratification by Libya’s House of Representatives on ...

Political figures from across the region on Wednesday offered their views on and reactions to the Libyan parliament’s decision to ratify a maritime boundary agreement with Turkey which both ...

European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday offered “solidarity” to both Greece and Cyprus after the Libyan parliament had earlier in the ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Friday declared the maritime boundary agreement signed by the governments of Turkey and Libya to be both “illegal” and “null and void” after it was ratified ...

Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled to the ...

At least five bodies of migrants including two women have been washed ashore in َQasr al-Akhyar, a coastal town east of Libya’s capital Tripoli, a police officer told Reuters ...

The minaret at a mosque in Cyprus which was built with funding from the Libyan government of Muammar Gaddafi will not be demolished, the north’s religious affairs directorate said ...

Libya’s army chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, was killed on Tuesday when a private jet carrying him and members of his entourage crashed near Ankara shortly after ...

Some of the bodies of migrants found in two mass graves in Libya bore gunshot wounds, the International Organisation for Migration said on Monday, adding that one of the sites ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday, on charges of having received millions of euros in illegal financing from Libya’s late strongman Muammar Gaddafi for his ...

More than half of Libya’s oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, was offline on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff between rival political ...

Five members of a Greek humanitarian aid mission were killed in a road accident in Libya on Sunday, including two civilians, the Greek Defence Minister said in a statement on ...

People whose homes were swept away by flooding in Libya’s eastern city of Derna a week ago faced the dilemma on Sunday of whether to stay despite a lack ...