U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein will return to Lebanon in the middle of next week carrying a new proposal, media reports said.
Hochstein will suggest “stopping discussions over the above-the-water lines and focusing on splitting the resources based on the basins that are under the water,” al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday.
“The shares of the two states can be split based on the sizes of these resources, away from the approach of direct lines,” the daily added.
“This would be easy should it turn out that the basins of each of the two sides are closed, which would preserve their rights to their underwater resources,” the newspaper said.