Foreign Minister of Egypt Sameh Shoukry discussed Turkish-Libyan recently-signed maritime deals with his Greek and Cypriot counterparts on Thursday, according to Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman Counselor Ahmed Hafez.
"FM Shoukry telephoned Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Cyprus's Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides where they discussed the signing of two memorandums of understanding between Turkey and Libya," Hafez noted.
He manifested that the three ministers agreed that the newly-signed Turkish-Libyan accord is baseless.
Earlier, Libya's GNA and Turkey have signed an agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea that could complicate Ankara's disputes over energy exploration with other countries.
Turkey, which announced the accord and a deal on expanded security and military cooperation on Thursday, gave no details of their memorandum of understanding and did not specify where Turkish and Libyan waters meet.
Accordingly, Egypt dismissed the deal as "illegal", and Greece said any such accord would be geographically absurd because it ignored the presence of the Greek island of Crete between the coasts of Turkey and Libya.
Tensions are already running high between Athens and Ankara because of Turkish drilling in the eastern Mediterranean off the coast of the pided island of Cyprus, and the European Union has prepared sanctions against Turkey in response.
The government in Tripoli confirmed the new agreements but gave no details.
On the other hand, the government in eastern Libya said the maritime accord was illegitimate.
Libya has been pided since 2014 into rival military and political camps based in the capital Tripoli and the east. Fayez Serraj's government is in conflict with forces led by Khalifa Haftar based in eastern Libya.
In June, Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) said they had cut all ties with Turkey and that all Turkish commercial flights or ships trying to access Libya would be treated as hostile.
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