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.