Lebanon-Cyprus maritime deal awaits Turkey’s response

By ratifying the agreement to delimit its maritime boundaries with Cyprus, Lebanon has reaffirmed its intention to keep pace with ongoing changes in the region.This ratification comes more than 20 years after negotiations between the two countries began, at a time when the geopolitical landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean has completely changed. The region now includes numerous actors and conflicting interests: Turkey and Israel, which have long engaged in a distant tug-of-war, and even the United States.Opinions on the agreement with Cyprus differ. For some, it represents a diplomatic success; for others, Lebanon could have secured a larger maritime zone. Need the context? Government adopts 2 major hydrocarbon measures, Cyprus border deal, among other measures The country chose the “median line theory” as the method of...