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The oil and gas of Lebanon tempts the appetite of its neighbours
With three fronts potentially encroaching on its oil and gas-rich waters, Lebanon has few options for international arbitration.
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Lebanon has 95.9 trillion cubic feet of gas and 865 million barrels of oil in just 45 percent of its economic waters; enough to ignite the closed Mediterranean region.
To the south, its neighbour Israel claims ownership of 860km of the exclusive economic zone of Lebanon, to the north Syria is drowning in war, then there is Cyprus, which is lost between its Turkish and Greek affiliations.
The most comprehensive multilateral convention in the history of general international law is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
It was adopted as the…