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Lebanon, Israel finalise US-brokered maritime border deal
Israeli and Lebanese leaders have signed a US-brokered deal that for the first time lays out their maritime border in the Mediterranean Sea. It enables both countries to conduct offshore exploration for gas and oil. The agreement comes after months of indirect talks that also ended a decades-long border dispute. The two neighbours have no official relations and are technically at war. Israel’s Prime Minister…
Lebanon-Israel maritime deal paves way for oil & gas exploration
Israel and Lebanon have officially approved a historic United States-brokered agreement laying out their maritime boundary for the first time, which opens up the possibility for both countries to conduct offshore energy exploration. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun signed a letter at the presidential palace on Thursday morning that will be submitted to US officials at Lebanon’s southernmost border point of Naqoura later in the day….