الاستراتيجية المقترحة لحماية المصالح المصرية في منطقة شرق المتوسط : دراسة بحثية

Abstract EN

The significance of the study declares with the recent Turkish escalation by concluding a security and military cooperation agreement with the Libyan accord government without a ratification by parliament, which Turkey seeks through to establish arm exclusive economic zone extends from the Turkish southern coast on the Mediterranean to the Libyan North-Eastern coast Which threats the eastern Mediterranean region countries interests in general and Egypt, Cyprus and Greece in particular.

That also, encroaches, their legal rights to discover or research energy resources within their exclusive economic regions, which calls for the importance to propose strategy of Egyptian interest's protection in the eastern Mediterranean.

The most prominent proposal of this strategy was as followed : 1 - The Political and security field : The importance to intensify political and security efforts at the regional and international levels, and activating the political, security and legal cooperation frameworks with the eastern Mediterranean and Europe countries to abort Turkish conflict movements (gas exploration companies-the military and security agreement between Turkey and Libyan accord government) to obstruct the designation and legalization of wartime borders among the eastern Mediterranean countries in addition to, undermine Gas exploration and production development in that area.

2 - The economic field : Relying on the Egyptian energy rectifiers which represented in the huge gas reserve as potential discovered (223 trillion) Israel and Cyprus gas reserves.

In addition to Egypt's possessing of the only two gas liquefaction stations (Edoko-Damitta) in the region.

With taking advantage of the European Union countries need to fill the gab among Gas volume production, total demands, diversify energy sources and reducing the dependence on Russian supplies, in order to activate and Maximize the Egyptian economic position in energy field and subsequently, converse to regional center to energy distribution.