MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Forthcoming visit of the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy – P-000285/2025

Priority question for written answer  P-000285/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)

According to the Commission’s official programme[1], Kaja Kallas, Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, will visit Türkiye on Friday 24 January and will hold meetings with Hakan Fidan, the Turkish Foreign Minister, and Numan Kurtulmuş, Speaker of the Turkish National Assembly. In view of Türkiye’s continuous challenges to and violations of the sovereign rights of Greece and Cyprus, the signing of the illegal agreement between Türkiye and Libya that violates the International Law of the Sea and the statements by the Turkish Government[2] (despite the subsequent denials[3]) concerning advanced negotiations on the signing of another memorandum of understanding with the Syrian transitional regime for the designation of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEΖ) between the two countries:

• 1.Does the VP/HR intend to put as a matter of urgency to the Turkish Government the necessary precondition of full respect for the International Law of the Sea and the sovereign rights of Greece and Cyprus?
• 2.Does she intend to stress, once more, the invalidity of the agreement between Türkiye and Libya that violates the International Law of the Sea and the sovereign rights of Greece and Cyprus?
• 3.Does the VP/HR plan to ask for explanations for Türkiye’s threats against Greece regarding Greece’s compliance with its obligation to complete its maritime spatial planning under Directive 2014/89/ΕU[4]?

Submitted: 22.1.2025

• [1] https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/college-commissioners/calendar-items-president-and-commissioners_en?f%5B0%5D=commissioner_dynamic_commissioner_dynamic%3Ahttp%3A//publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/political-leader/COM_00006A32DF03&f%5B1%5D=ewcms_calendar_status%3Apast&f%5B2%5D=ewcms_calendar_status%3Aupcoming
• [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-24/turkey-plans-to-start-maritime-agreement-negotiations-with-syria
• [3] https://www.tanea.gr/2025/01/15/politics/i-tourkia-crden-exei-prothesi-crna-oriothetisei-aoz-me-ti-syria-online/
• [4] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EL/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32014L0089