Is Cyprus mediating in Lebanon-Israel maritime border row?

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Cypriot authorities informed the Lebanese government that Israel is seeking to resolve the dispute over its maritime borders with its northern neighbour, Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported.
According to the report, Cyprus is serious about helping resolve the issue, but that Beirut does not intend to open negotiations regarding the maritime border and aims to protect its rights to gas and oil in the Mediterranean Sea.
Israel’s cabinet on July 10 approved the demarcation of the northern maritime border with Lebanon, in an effort to protect economic rights in offshore territories that Lebanon is claiming as its own. Israel submitted its map to the UN to counter a map that Lebanon submitted last year.
The newspaper report added that Lebanon will not enter any direct or indirect negotiations with the Israelis, as Lebanon aims at confirming its rights by benefiting from its natural resources that extends in its Exclusive Economic Zone.
Lebanon and Israel are bickering over a zone that consists of about 854 sq.km. and suspected energy reserves there could generate billions of dollars.
Diplomatic sources told As Safir that the U.S. is also exerting efforts to resolve the dispute between the two countries as the matter might justify any attempt by the Lebanese resistance to target Israel and its offshore oil installations.
“We have already discussed the issue with the Cypriot authorities… and demanded them to rectify the mistakes done by them through demarcating their maritime borders with Israel, which harmed Lebanon,” Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour told the daily.