Foreign officials and scholars spoke out against China’s ambition tooccupy the entire East Sea via its groundless “nine-dash line” claim at aworkshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 5.
Hosted bythe Argentine Council for International Relations (CIRA), the event cameafter China’s placement of its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou – 981 inVietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone in early May hadsparked concerns in the world community.
China’s attempt tochange the status quo is a violation of the 1982 United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the Declaration on theConduct of Parties in the East Sea that it signed with the Associationof Southeast Asian Nations in 2002, said Vietnamese Ambassador NguyenDinh Thao.
He confirmed that Vietnam has adequate historicaland legal evidence proving its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) andTruong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, and will hold on to its policy ofsettling the East Sea dispute by peaceful means in line withinternational law.
Philippine Ambassador Maria AmelitaC.Aquino told participants that her country has filed a lawsuit againstBeijing to the Permanent Court of Arbitration for violating the 1982UNCLOS with its “nine-dot line” claim, and its illegal occupation of hercountry’s Scarborough shoal, which is named Huangyan island by China,in 2012.
The East Sea is known to sit on a huge oil and gasreserve and one of the world’s maritime lifelines, according to theDirector of the CIRA’s Institute of International Security and StrategicAffairs Julio A. Hang, who called China’s unilateral placement of itsoil rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone a “serious” act.
CIRA was established in 1978 and growing into a prestigious think-tankin Argentina. It encourages national studies on global issues to servethe promotion of mutual understanding among nations.-VNA
Hosted bythe Argentine Council for International Relations (CIRA), the event cameafter China’s placement of its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou – 981 inVietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone in early May hadsparked concerns in the world community.
China’s attempt tochange the status quo is a violation of the 1982 United NationsConvention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the Declaration on theConduct of Parties in the East Sea that it signed with the Associationof Southeast Asian Nations in 2002, said Vietnamese Ambassador NguyenDinh Thao.
He confirmed that Vietnam has adequate historicaland legal evidence proving its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) andTruong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, and will hold on to its policy ofsettling the East Sea dispute by peaceful means in line withinternational law.
Philippine Ambassador Maria AmelitaC.Aquino told participants that her country has filed a lawsuit againstBeijing to the Permanent Court of Arbitration for violating the 1982UNCLOS with its “nine-dot line” claim, and its illegal occupation of hercountry’s Scarborough shoal, which is named Huangyan island by China,in 2012.
The East Sea is known to sit on a huge oil and gasreserve and one of the world’s maritime lifelines, according to theDirector of the CIRA’s Institute of International Security and StrategicAffairs Julio A. Hang, who called China’s unilateral placement of itsoil rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone a “serious” act.
CIRA was established in 1978 and growing into a prestigious think-tankin Argentina. It encourages national studies on global issues to servethe promotion of mutual understanding among nations.-VNA
