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Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a few hours after Turkey’s “wedge” attempt to determine the Ankara-Cairo EEZ.
According to the Arab media marsad.ecsstudies.com, the two leaders focused on the close bilateral relations that unite the two countries in various fields, mainly in the field of energy and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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According to the Arab media, Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed the desire to exchange views with the Egyptian president on regional issues of common interest, highlighting the importance of mutual coordination at the bilateral and trilateral level, between Greece-Egypt and Cyprus.
For his part, Al Sisi confirmed the dynamics of the relationship He stressed Egypt’s desire to promote various aspects of this constructive cooperation, especially in the fields of energy, but also in the field of security and the military.
Earlier today, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu, left open the possibility that Turkey and Egypt sit at the negotiating table for the demarcation of maritime zones in the eastern Mediterranean. At a press conference with his Georgian counterpart in Ankara, Tsavousoglu said that Egypt in his proclamation respected the Turkish continental shelf, something that Ankara saw with a positive eye.
The head of Turkish diplomacy stressed, of course, that such a thing will only be possible if a change of climate in the recently tense relations between Turkey and Egypt allows it.
Last month, Cairo announced the first international round of tenders for the exploitation of oil and gas fields in 24 parcels, some of them in the Mediterranean Sea.
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