Lebanon and Israel are getting closer to reaching a deal in a more than a decade-old maritime border dispute between the two neighbors, a U.S. envoy and Lebanese officials said Monday.
Lebanon and Israel have been officially at war since Israel’s creation in 1948 and both countries claim some 860 square kilometers of the Mediterranean Sea.
“The atmosphere is positive and the gap of disagreements in this field is narrowing,” Deputy Parliament Speaker Elias Bou Saab told reporters after the meeting.Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Sunday to inform Lebanon of Israel’s response to Beirut’s June proposal over the disputed sea border area. He added that he looks “forward to coming back to the region” and “being able to make the final arrangements.”Lebanon’s caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib told the local Al-Jadeed TV that major progress has been made. “We are trying to set things up so that we can search for gas and they too,” he said.
Lebanon claims the Karish gas field is disputed territory under ongoing maritime border negotiations, whereas Israel says it lies within its internationally recognized economic waters.
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