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Negotiations on the maritime border with Lebanon are stuck, and many sides are on a map from a century ago
One exploding negotiation meeting, arguments over rocks in Rosh Hanikra and disputes over a tiny island off the coast of Achziv. After two months of American-mediated talks, the parties are only hardening positions. Steinitz:
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
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In the video: The Israeli delegation crosses the Lebanese border (Photo: Reuters, Editing: Nir Chen)
After four sessions at the base of the UN Naqura with a realtor US talks between Israel and Lebanon marking the maritime boundary stalled. According to Israeli officials involved in the issue, the two sides argue about the placement of the Rock from which to begin to draw the line.
This is the first time in 30 years that Israel and Lebanon Direct negotiations.
The parties are trying to resolve the dispute over natural gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.
The economic potential of these gas reservoirs could reach tens of billions of dollars in profits.
According to senior Israeli officials, during the second negotiation meeting, the Lebanese presented a map that included a new demand for a more southern border line than ever before, including some of the gas reserves that Israel has already begun to develop. More that went into the economic waters of Lebanon.
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The calls are stuck.
UN base in Nakura (Photo: Reuters)
The meeting heated up, and eventually exploded and ended in extremely jarring tones.
Senior Israeli officials note that in the third and fourth meetings things calmed down and the atmosphere improved, but the parties did not flex their positions.
For example, the Lebanese argued that small islands off the coast of Achziv should not be taken into account and affect the marking of the maritime border.
The Lebanese were surprised when the Israeli negotiating team showed them that a few years ago they demanded that similar islands in northern Lebanon be taken into account and affect the drawing of the sea border line between Lebanon and Syria.
Maritime border map between Israel and Lebanon
However, the strangest point of contention that illustrates the complexity of negotiations in the Middle East concerned the question of which rock on the beach in Rosh Hanikra should be used as a starting point for drawing the maritime border. According to senior Israeli officials, Israel and France from 1923 to strengthen their position.The Israelis responded by presenting an agreement between France and Britain from 1920, according to which the border line should start from a point four kilometers north of the current border line.Israeli
officials estimate that one of the reasons United States. Negotiations between the parties began as part of the Trump administration's initiative and it is possible that the Lebanese government is now waiting to see what the Biden administration's position will be on the issue before it flexes its position and seeks an agreement.
"I did not give this negotiation much chance because I knew who I was dealing with." Steinitz (Photo: Amit Shabi)
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, to whom the Israeli negotiating team is subordinate, told Walla! NEWS that he estimated that the first months of negotiations would be "in the style of a Middle Eastern bazaar with maximalist demands and provocations" before progress could be made.
"I did not give that much of a chance to negotiate that I knew who I was dealing with," said Steinitz. "On the one hand there is no progress and the parties are taking tough positions, but on both sides want to continue to talk and no explosion talks."
Meeting of the Fifth negotiations will proceed In early December.
Steinitz said that at this point American realtor John Darucher had not put on the table one or another mediation proposal.
"We do not yet have a creative solution but perhaps at some point the Americans will present such ideas," the minister said.
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