The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean
Abstract
The Mediterranean Sea is often divided, for convenience, into western, central, and eastern regions. The eastern Mediterranean lies roughly east of 23°E and can be taken to include the Sea of Crete and the Aegean. Though smaller in area than the western or central regions, its waters are shared by no less than eight coastal states, all of which have particular economic, political, or strategic interests in the eastern Mediterranean. The state with the smallest stake in the eastern Mediterranean is Libya, whose 1,770 km coastline largely overlooks the central Mediterranean. This paper is an attempt to review the significance of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea for coastal states in the eastern Mediterranean, with special reference to their offshore jurisdiction.References
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