Albania and Greece have not reached an agreement on the maritime borders between the two countries, despite a meeting between the prime ministers of both countries on the sidelines of the European Political Community in Prague on Thursday.

 This was reported by Euractiv.

 In 2009, the two countries agreed on the delimitation of the continental shelf in the waters between them, but then-opposition Prime Minister Edi Rama took the matter to the Constitutional Court.

 He claimed that under the agreement, Greece received about 225 square kilometers of Albanian waters. The court agreed, and relations between Athens and Tirana soured. The issue has remained unresolved since Rama came to power in 2013, and in October 2021 it was announced that the case would be referred to an international tribunal.

 Rama said no consensus had been reached and the matter would be referred to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

 "It's a legal process, there's a set of rules, there's a set of procedures, and we're going to follow the procedures from start to finish because we have to make our position very clear, we have to make our intentions very clear in this process. We don't have a consensus between sides," Rama said.

 In 2011, leaked diplomatic cables from the US alleged that Greece was blackmailing Albania into accepting a deal that was not favorable to itself, using Athens' veto power on EU enlargement. Greece has publicly made similar assumptions regarding the unresolved issue of the repatriation of Albanians evicted from the Greek region of Epirus at the end of World War II.