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Lebanon complains to UN over sea border dispute with Israel

By JPOST.COM STAFF

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 15:23

Lebanon on Monday issued a complaint to the UN, saying that Israel's setting of a maritime border in a potentially resource-rich region between the two countries threatens peace and security in the region, AFP reported.

Israel’s cabinet on July 10 approved the demarcation of the northern maritime border with Lebanon, in an effort to protect economic rights in offshore territories that Lebanon is claiming as its own. Israel submitted its map to the UN to counter a map that Lebanon submitted last year. The area of the Mediterranean Sea in question is close to an area where US and Israeli firms have discovered two massive natural gas fields.

"Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon rejecting geographic coordinates Israel submitted to the United Nations concerning the northern part of the waters it claims," a Lebanese statement said.

The statement added that Israel's claim infringes on Lebanon's Exclusive Economic Zone, a sea zone that would give Beirut the right to search the area for natural resources.

"This is a clear violation of Lebanon's rights... over an area of some 860 square kilometers, and puts international peace and security at risk," it said, adding, "We urge the secretary general to take all necessary measures to avoid conflict."

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