RoK, Vietnam discuss Sea Law
(VOV) - An international seminar on the Law of the Sea of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) took place in the RoK City of Busan on October 29.
The event was jointly held by the Research Centre for the Law of the Sea under the Vietnam Research Institute, Yongsan University, and the Institute of Ocean Sciences under the RoK Ministry of Natural Resources, Land and Oceanography.
In his speech, Director of the Research Institute for Maritime Law under the Youngsan University Jang Seong-ki said the event gives the two countries’ scholars a chance to provide historic and practical legal evidence to deal with issues related to territorial waters dispute, thus ensuring regional peace and stability.
Pro. Dr Vo Khanh Vinh from the Vietnam Institute of Social Sciences, said the Law of the Sea of Vietnam serves as a foundation for the country to settle territorial waters dispute with other countries in the spirit of respecting international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Participants agreed that the UNCLOS provides an important legal basis for coastal countries like Vietnam and the RoK to affirm their sovereignty and jurisdiction in accordance with the convention. It is also a foundation for the demarcation of the seas overlapped with other countries.
This is the second time the Law of the Sea of Vietnam has been discussed within a week in the two Korean cities of Seoul and Busan.