Hommam Al Nassim 
The Greek newspaper ‘Kathimerini’ reported that Libya’s outgoing Government of National Unity objected to Greece’s excavations south of Crete and described them as illegal in areas belonging to Libya.
The objection came via a letter sent by the Libyan government to the Greek ambassador in Tripoli, Nikos Garilidis, shortly before Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Ankara, raising doubts about possible Turkish interference in the issue.
Greek sources told the newspaper that the Greek embassy in Tripoli received a note verbale from the Libyan government on the excavation that took place south of Crete, noting that the Greek response will be in the coming days through the Greek Foreign Ministry.
The sources added that the Greek response would be mainly to record its position, without acknowledging any basis for the “Libyan allegations.”
Libya’s objection comes against the backdrop of seismic surveys carried out by the Norwegian ship Ramform Hyperion weeks ago.
Libya’s “national unity” government questions the boundaries of Greece’s territorial waters in the maritime areas west and southwest of Crete, based on the Yannis Maniatis Law 4001/2011, which, in the absence of an agreement between Athens and Tripoli, relies on the median line as a maximum.
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