01/07/2013
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh declared that issues in the East Sea are a common concern for countries in the region during a speech at the 46th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei, on June 30th.
Minh stressed that the East Sea has seen complex developments in recent times, citing a spate of territorial claims and cases of ships firing at or ramming into Vietnamese fishing boats in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.
He said that those incidents run counter to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), as well as the spirit of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC).
In the face of such moves, he suggested that ASEAN call on all relevant parties to respect the commitments made in the DOC, UNCLOS and ASEAN’s Six-Point Principles in the East Sea.
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