The Austrian National Library holds materials proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, a scholar from the University of Vienna’s Institute for East Asian Studies confirmed at a workshop in the city on June 15. 

(VOV) - Vietnam should sue China for misinterpreting and misusing the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), using force to possess another country’s territory, and violating the legitimate rights and interests of Vietnam.

Vietnam fisheries surveillance vessels June 15 continued activities to oppose China and request it to withdraw the oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 from Vietnam’s waters. 

(VOV) - China’s Foreign Ministry recently held a press conference to slander Vietnam and justify its illegal actions in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. 

(VOV) - International public opinion share the view that the escalating tension in the East Sea can not be ignored.

Vietnam’s Fisheries Surveillance Force on June 14 detected a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft flying at the height of 300-500m above the Haiyang Shiyou-981 rig which is standing illegally inside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. 

(VOV) - International law is a key approach in the management of territorial disputes in the East Sea.

(VOV) - Vietnam’s diplomatic struggle against China’s illegal placement of the oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 in the nation’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf is continuing to receive ardent support from many other countries.

Chinese fishing ships on June 13 intentionally formed a row, 35 nautical miles from China’s drilling rig illegally placed in Vietnam’s waters, in order to prevent Vietnamese fishing boats from operating in their traditional grounds near the rig.

(VOV) - Scholars have provided a wealth of substantiated evidence empirically refuting China’s fallacious allegations claiming sovereignty over the East Sea.

Seven royal ordinances and certificates recently found in central Binh Thuan province are original documents that affirm Vietnam’s sovereignty over its waters.

(VOV) - The Vietnamese Embassy in South Africa hosted a seminar on the East Sea situation in the capital city of Pretoria on June 12 criticizing the illegal placement by China of the oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 in Vietnam’s waters.

Chinese ships on June 12 continued to encircle and cut off Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance vessels and then retreat in order to photograph and film misleading footage aimed to make it look like they were being rammed by Vietnamese ships.

(VOV) -China is trying to create “a fait accompli" to rationalise its presence in the areas it uses force to occupy the East Sea.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has strongly condemned China’s violent acts targeting Vietnamese fishermen within the waters of Vietnam, at the 103rd International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva.

(VOV) - Foreign and defence ministers of Japan and Australia have expressed strong opposition to the use of force or coercion to unilaterally alter the status quo in the East and East China Seas.

Tension has continued to escalate in the East Sea as China has maintained the presence of a large number of ships around the drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981, according to the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.

(VOV) - The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) has called upon parties involved in territorial disputes in the East Sea to fully observe the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to settle their disputes peacefully.

(VOV) - John Ashe, President of the current UN General Assembly session, has raised the international community’s concern about recent East Sea tensions and supported Vietnam’s stance towards settling the dispute by peaceful means in line with the UN Charter and international law.

(VOV) - What is happening in the East Sea is critically serious and Vietnam resolutely demands China to withdraw oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 and more than 100 ships from Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf to create an environment for negotiations.

(VOV) - China’s withdrawal of their vessels and oil rig from Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) will make room for diplomacy to reduce the escalating tension.

China’s oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981, illegally stationed in Vietnamese waters, on June 10 moved east-southeast to an unfixed position, according to the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.

China on June 9 continued perverting international law by sending two more military ships to the area around rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 that is illegally placed in Vietnam’s waters.

The Senior Officials’ Meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum (SOM ARF) opened on June 9 in Yangon, Myanmar, spending much time on the East Sea issue. 

(VOV) - China on June 8 published a misleading article, fabricating events and distorting the truth behind what is really happening in the East Sea.

They stayed about 8-10 nautical miles from where China’s oil rig is illegally standing, according to the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.

(VOV) - Senior officials from ASEAN member states and dialogue partners have expressed their deep concern about increased tensions in the East Sea following China’s positioning of its oil rig inside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.

(VOV) - About thirty European scholars attending a recent workshop in Norway refuted China’s groundless claim of the ‘nine-dash line’ or ‘U-shaped line’ in the East Sea, saying it cannot be used for sovereign negotiations.  

(VOV) - The National Assembly Committee for External Relations has sent a letter to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), informing about China’s violation of Vietnamese sovereignty in the East Sea, and proposed the IPU and other international organisations support Vietnam in settling the dispute peacefully.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has voiced opposition against China’s wrongful and dangerous act of illegally placing its oil rig in Vietnam’s waters, demanding the country immediately recall the rig as well as all surrounding vessels out of the area.