27771 - Strategic implications of Western Armenia’s EEZ

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athina Kehagias

By signing the Law of the Sea and the establishment of its EEZ, Western Armenia changes the phase and passed substantially from decision theory into game theory. For as long as the battle was confined to land, no country in the region except of course for the occupational regime, gave any attention to it. Now however that she’s claiming sovereign rights and especially in the Black Sea, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine, as States successively resulting from the former Soviet Union, pay attention her, each in its own way and manner. Because there is the problem of Batumi, of Crimea and its succession with respect to the concept of the median line, the border demarcations, but its EEZ as well. In other words, the establishment of Western Armenia’s EEZ, gives her another dimension as far as geopolitics as concerned, and that became undoubtedly understandable in Geneva. Because now, there’s the utilization and the exploitation of the exclusive fishing context, which could immediately and directly be placed on the negotiations table, as well of course as the hydrocarbons which are located in the Black Sea, and which concern all of those players, but simultaneously the European Union as well, as that’s obvious through the articles of the energean chart. Consequently, Western Armenia has an initiative re: the actions in this sector, and she’s already receiving response from other States, which in the past had made some more discreet supporting acts, whereas now, they are talking more openly about these rights which constitute a strategic platform for other bonds το eventuate as well.