Throughout the first part of 2025, it’s anticipated, consistent with dependable data, to post to the Eu Fee on behalf of our nation the up to date map that can mirror the Marine Spatial Making plans, the submission of which has been considerably not on time because the time limit expired on March 31, 2021, leading to Greece being referred to the Courtroom of Justice of the EU (December 2023) for no longer making sure the right kind implementation of Group Directive.
“It’ll be submitted in a well timed and suitable method, no extension”, emphasised Giorgos Gerapetritis.
“We take into account that there has certainly been an extended past due lengthen. Regardless of this, Greece will generally post the marine spatial making plans as supplied for through Eu Legislation”, famous the Minister of International Affairs.
In regards to the Greek map already posted at the Fee’s web site, which provoked the fierce response of the Turkish International Ministry final month, diplomatic assets rigidity that it’s an “old-fashioned” and “out of date” map because it does no longer come with the Greek-Egyptian settlement of 2020.
Within the caption of the “old-fashioned” map, in regards to the marine zones of our nation, the Fee notes: “The Greek territorial sea with a zone of 6 nautical miles, covers roughly 92,095 sq. km
An settlement has been concluded with Italy at the delimitation of the continental shelf. The settlement at the delimitation of maritime zones between Greece and Albania has been signed however has no longer but entered into drive. Additionally, it’s explicitly said that Greece has no longer but followed Marine Spatial Making plans.
The up to date map which is within the ultimate stretch for the approval procedure through the related ministries (and which will probably be submitted after the courtroom choice in regards to the earlier lengthen has been issued within the intervening time), will mirror the rustic’s Marine Spatial Making plans with the entire doable sea zones of Greece on the “most”.
“Clearly it is going to come with the utmost we will achieve in territorial waters, and at the continental shelf and within the EEZ.
Subsequently, the brand new factor that we can see within the map that we can post would be the settlement with Egypt and the recording of the utmost of all our doable maritime zones”, says a reliable supply in “NEWS” and specifies, predicting the level of the territorial waters, the EEZ and the continental shelf at a possible degree: “We are saying that our territorial waters are at 6 n.m. and doubtlessly at 12 p.m.
The EEZ and the continental shelf doubtlessly reaches as much as 200 n.m. from baseline’.
Along with the possible marking of the Greek maritime zones at the Maritime Spatial Making plans map, it’s identified from Turkey’s viewpoint that the prison and sovereign proper of Greece to increase its territorial waters within the Aegean as much as 12 N.M. – as supplied through the Legislation of the Sea – is challenged through the specter of conflict (casus belli).
The Greek International Minister lately reiterated that “casus belli must be reversed”, whilst declaring that “sovereignty way that we’ve got the inalienable, inalienable proper to increase our territorial waters to twelve nautical miles”.
On the identical time, he emphasised that in regards to the delimitation of the continental shelf and EEZ, the dialogue must happen “when we have now a top degree of world capital”, noting that “as of late we’re at this degree”.
Then again, judging from the preliminary, sturdy response to the sight of the “old-fashioned” Greek map from the Turkish Ministry of International Affairs (which, amongst different issues, defined that “it is going to no longer permit Turkey’s rights to be violated within the Aegean and the Jap Mediterranean”, accusing, on the identical time , the EU for “unilateral strikes”), it’s positive that the upcoming, new response from Ankara’s facet after the submission of the up to date subject material with the entire doable maritime zones of Greece positioned at the map, is prescribed in particular critical.
The problem of the lengthen within the submission of Maritime Spatial Making plans used to be additionally lately touched upon through the previous High Minister Antonis Samaras, who attributed the Greek lengthen to phobia against the Turks pronouncing that “as an alternative of creating the map of Seville, which totally enshrines us, our flag, we fake to not we perceive so as to not “worsen” Turkey”.
For the map of Seville, then again, on which the maritime geography of Europe used to be recorded intimately in 2007 (and which demarcated the EEZ in Kastellorizo permitting the relationship of the Greek and Cypriot EEZs within the Jap Mediterranean), the Fee itself has dominated that “it does no longer represent an respectable EU record and due to this fact has no prison and political drive’, as it’s an ‘exterior record’ ready through ‘establishments’, that means the professors of the Ministry of Training and Science of Spain who compiled it.
Then again, there aren’t a couple of who indicate publicly that the Greek-Turkish discussion at the definition of maritime zones must no longer be preceded through the preparation of Maritime Spatial Making plans.
The cause of the three-year lengthen at the a part of Athens in filing the Maritime Spatial Making plans, which some characteristic to the imaginable harsh response at the a part of Ankara, isn’t showed in the meanwhile.
However what is still noticed when, right through the primary part of the brand new 12 months, the map is submitted to the Fee (with Greece protecting the presidency of the SA in Would possibly) is the true dimension of Turkey’s response and the potential for this particular factor inflicting shocks within the “calm waters” of the Greek-Turkish rapprochement.
By way of then, the rumored intentions of Ankara to conclude an EEZ settlement with the transitional regime in Damascus could have turn out to be obvious, totally ignoring Cyprus, in opposition to which Athens and Nicosia have taken precautionary measures via their joint observation to the EU, asking for, amongst different issues , the set up of a unique EU envoy within the area for the “steady tracking of traits” that “immediately impact Eu maritime borders”.
But even so, within the face of tried Turkish “methods” within the Mediterranean, Greece is bound to make use of as a “defend” the possible maritime zones as they’re going to be mirrored within the up to date map that the Fee will probably be requested to approve from the brand new 12 months.
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