Egypt’s Note Verbale to the UN: Explicitly rejects the limits of the Libyan Continental Shelf

The Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations, successful a note verbale dated 8 September 2025, lodged a beardown protestation and denunciation against the claims included successful Libya’s notes verbales (27 May and 20 June 2025) regarding the outer limits of the Libyan continental shelf, arsenic good arsenic areas for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation successful the Mediterranean.

According to the Hellenic News Agency (ANA-MPA), Egypt explicitly rejects the limits of the Libyan continental support arsenic declared and shown connected related maps, arsenic they overlap with Egypt’s occidental maritime boundary. Furthermore, it “denounces the eastward-claimed maritime boundary, arsenic it lies wholly wrong Egypt’s maritime zone, violating its sovereignty implicit its territorial waters (Territorial Sea) and adjacent zone, arsenic good arsenic its sovereign rights successful its Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf.” Egypt declares its determination to support its rights, which are grounded successful planetary instrumentality and the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The enactment verbale emphasizes that Libya’s positions “are incompatible with the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea and interruption the provisions of planetary instrumentality and applicable planetary practice.” It recalls Egypt’s related announcements and legislative acts, peculiarly Presidential Decree 595/2022 connected the delimitation of occidental maritime boundaries, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile notes verbales (2019, 2023, and 2024).

Special attraction is fixed to Libya’s protestation against Greece’s planetary tender for exploration southbound of the Peloponnese and Crete. Egypt “rejects and refuses to admit immoderate assertion implicit its EEZ and Continental Shelf, stressing that specified claims bash not instrumentality into relationship its inherent and inalienable sovereign rights” successful the maritime areas extending from its baselines successful the Mediterranean.

At the aforesaid time, Egypt rejects the memorandum of practice signed connected 25 June 2025 betwixt the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) and the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO), which foresees geological and geophysical studies and seismic surveys successful 4 maritime areas. As emphasized, the alleged “Area 4” overlaps with Egyptian boundaries, and truthful Egypt rejects some the memorandum itself and immoderate measures, actions, oregon ineligible consequences arising from it. It besides rejects immoderate enactment oregon operations wrong its maritime boundaries based connected this memorandum. Similarly, it reiterates that it does not admit the 2019 and 2022 Turkey-Libya memoranda, declaring them “invalid and without ineligible effect.”

In conclusion, Egypt declares its willingness and committedness to cooperate and negociate successful bully religion with neighboring states connected the delimitation of maritime zones based connected planetary law.