(ANSAmed) - NICOSIA, APRIL 28 - An Agreement on the exchange
and protection of confidential information with respect to
hydrocarbons discovered in Block 12 in Cyprus' Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ) and in its adjacent Block Ishai in Israel's
EEZ was signed today in Nicosia by the Deputy Permanent
Secretary of the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador
Tasos Tzionis and the Ambassador of Israel in Cyprus Michael
Harari.
Negotiations, which led to the signing of this Agreement, were held between the negotiating teams of the two sides from November 2013 until January 2014 as Cna reports. The said confidential information will be exchanged for the purpose of assisting each Government in forming an opinion on the extent of hydrocarbons discovered in each of the aforementioned specific Blocks.
This Agreement forms part of the external dimension of Cyprus' energy policy which inter alia promotes mutually beneficial cooperation with all the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean. (ANSAmed).
Negotiations, which led to the signing of this Agreement, were held between the negotiating teams of the two sides from November 2013 until January 2014 as Cna reports. The said confidential information will be exchanged for the purpose of assisting each Government in forming an opinion on the extent of hydrocarbons discovered in each of the aforementioned specific Blocks.
This Agreement forms part of the external dimension of Cyprus' energy policy which inter alia promotes mutually beneficial cooperation with all the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean. (ANSAmed).