The Lebanon government objected to Li's unofficial action on the maritime border issue

Author:Xinhuanet Time:2022.07.05

Xinhua News Agency, Berut, July 4 (Reporter Liu Zongya) Lebanon's Prime Minister Mikati said on the 4th that it was unacceptable to adopt an unofficial action to take the maritime border between Lebanese and Israel.

On the day of the meeting of Minister Li, Mikati and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bu Habib, said in the recent situation that Lebanon sought in the diplomatic scope to designate the maritime border with Israel. It is unacceptable and will cause Lebanese to face unnecessary risks.

Mikati called on all parties in the country to "show a high sense of state responsibility and abide by the state's negotiation process."

On the 2nd of this month, the Lebanon Real Party publicly acknowledged that three drones were performed to perform reconnaissance missions to the controversial Kalish natural gas fields in the Mediterranean. Military and logistics ". On the same day, the Israeli National Defense Force issued a statement saying that the three UAVs of the Allah were shot down on the way to the Kalish natural gas field. These drones tried to enter the Israeli "exclusive economic zone".

Lebanon and Israel have not established diplomatic relations. Both countries adhere to a Mediterranean seas of about 860 square kilometers. In recent years, the exploration has found that this controversial sea area is rich in natural gas resources. From October 2020 to May 2021, Li Yizhi held five rounds of indirect negotiations on the division of the maritime border. Different from the technical standards to be followed by the completion of the boundary, the sixth round of negotiations were delayed indefinitely.

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