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France, Russia and the UK have called on Turkey to avoid escalation in the Eastern Mediterranean and respect international law, following its expressed intentions to start drilling off the coast of the Republic of Cyprus.

he U.S. wants to work with Cyprus and ally Israel to buttress peace in the eastern Mediterranean and to head off Russian influence over the region's energy reserves, a senior U.S. lawmaker said Monday.

“We are concerned about the escalation of the situation in the eastern Mediterranean. We believe that any economic activity must be in compliance with international law,” Russian Ambassador to Athens Andrey Maslov said on Monday morning in relation to Turkish provocation in the Cypriot EEZ.