After consulting with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Lebanese President Michel Aoun warns Israel that any activity of the Energean hydrocarbon company in the disputed maritime zone between Lebanon and Israel will “Hostile provocative action.” off the coast of southern Lebanon, in the Karis deposit. Israel claims that the field is within its own EEZ and that it has licensed it for exploitation to that company.
Negotiations between Israel and Lebanon to resolve the dispute and the demarcation of their EEZs with the encouragement of the UN and the US have been at a dead end for years.
Source: politis.com.cy
