28/04/2013
Vietnam will adopt every suitable and necessary peaceful measure to defend sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction as well as its legal and legitimate national interests in the East Sea in accordance with the UN Charter, international law and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 UNCLOS).
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Luong Thanh Nghi made the statement in Hanoi on April 26th while answering reporters’ questions on Vietnam ’s response to the President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)’s appointment of arbitrators to the Ad hoc Arbitration Tribunal that was established pursuant to Annex VII of the 1982 UNCLOS.
Nghi stressed that Vietnam learnt that on January 22nd, the Filipino Foreign Ministry sent to the Chinese Embassy a diplomatic note attached with a notice and declaration on the Philippines’ proceedings against China to the Ad hoc Arbitration Tribunal set up under Annex VII of the 1982 UNCLOS, and on April 24th, the ITLOS President completed the appointment of arbitrators to the tribunal.
“As a coastal country with its legal and legitimate national rights and interests in the East Sea, Vietnam takes an interest in and keep a close watch on the process of the lawsuit”, he said
Source – Vietnamplus.
Full statement here.
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