(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.