Kastelorizo Updates

I predicted at "Kastelorizo - Mediterranean Flashpoint?" that the issue of a Greek exclusive economic zone would turn the tiny island of the Anatolian coast into a crisis point. This blog notes some developments on the EEZ topic that bear on that issue.

For starters, the Hellas Frappe blog reports on a indirect Greek proclamation of its EEZ, at the behest of Foreign Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos. This was done via a verbal statement of its continental shelf coordinates to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations. The Hellas Frappe story on this move includes the map below, which closely resembles the upper one of the pair posted at the main article. (February 21, 2013)

Kastelorizo features prominently in this map of the purported Greek EEZ claim.

Mar. 14, 2013 update: The Greek government has devised the idea of a "European Exclusive Economic Zone" or EEEZ as a way to spread the risk vis-à-vis Turkey to the rest of the European Union. Clever, but will it work?

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