Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansor sent a letter Monday to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, rejecting Israel's claims of the northern part of the waters between the two countries. "The Israeli claim infringes on Lebanon's Exclusive Economic (sea) Zone," a zone that gives a country the right to explore its maritime resources, the letter noted. "This is a clear violation of Lebanon's rights... over an area of some 860 square kilometres, and puts international peace and security at risk," it was quoted as saying by the German Press Agency "DPA". In August, Lebanon's parliament ratified a law to define the borders of the country's territorial waters.
