Deputy Citizen Protection Minister George Koumoutsakos participated on Thursday in a seminar on "Eastern Mediterranean. The Importance of Pillars of Stability in a Sea of Instability" organised by the Hellenic American Institute in Athens. The event was attended by U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, International Relations Professor Konstantinos Filis, and Doug Bandow, a member of the U.S. CATO Institute.

Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the Parliament would vote the Exclusive Economic Zone (EZZ) Agreement signed with Libya, according to online Turkish media outlet Milliyet.

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The US State Department issued a statement on the Turkish-Libyan maritime delimitation memorandum calling it “unhelpful and provocative”.