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Bassil Asks Cabinet to Retain Original Maritime EEZ

Energy Minister Gebran Bassil Friday urged the Cabinet not to make changes to the original demarcation of the Exclusive Economic Zone, adding that failure to settle appointments at the Petroleum Commission would delay oil and gas exploration.

The minister, who was speaking at a news conference Friday, rejected calls to reopen discussions of an earlier decree that set the borders Lebanon’s economic zone in September 2011.

Gebran Bassil urged Cabinet not to make changes to original demarcation of Exclusive Economic Zone

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