Turkey said on Friday that Turkish Cypriots had rights to a share of the island’s offshore resources, days after the Greek Cypriot government agreed a revenue deal with a U.S. firm over a gas find in the eastern Mediterranean.

The state’s net revenues from the sale of natural gas from the “Aphrodite” deposit at the liquefaction terminal in Itkou, Egypt, are estimated at USD 9.5 billion, based on the final agreement of the Ministry of Energy with the Noble-Shell-Delek joint venture.

With the aim of promoting peace, security, stability and prosperity, the first tripartite Ministerial Meeting of Cyprus – Armenia – Greece, is held today in Nicosia through the enhanced political dialogue and the extended cooperation of the three countries, with the participation of the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Giorgos Katrougalos.