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The Vietnam News Agency on July 18 was empowered to declare refuting untruthful coverage by the Chinese press regarding the East Sea issue.

Marcel Winter, President of the Czech – Vietnamese Society, recently refuted a newspaper article showing China’s wrongful viewpoints on the East Sea situation.

Both the Philippines and Japan have called on China to respect the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s (PCA) ruling that rejected Beijing’s nine-dash line claims in the East Sea.

A business delegation of Yantai city in the Chinese province of Shandong had a working session with officials of Vietnam’s northernmost province of Ha Giang on July 15.

Victor Oh, a Canadian senator, encouraged all parties to come together to find a diplomatic solution to the overlapping claims in the East Sea in a statement from Ottawa on July 14.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he will send former president Fidel Ramos to China for talks after the PCA issued a ruling on the case brought by the Philippines against China’s claim.

Vietnam once again asserts that it has sufficient legal grounds and historical evidence affirming its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, FM’s spokesman said.

The US said the ruling from the PCA in The Hague that China has no historic title over the waters of the East Sea should be treated as final and binding and not bea reason to raise tensions.

Singapore’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement calling on parties in the Philippines’s lawsuit against China's claims in the East Sea to fully respect legal and diplomatic processes.

The US has affirmed that the ruling of the Hague tribunal on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims in the East Sea is an important contribution to the shared goal of a peaceful resolution.

“Vietnam welcomes the arbitration tribunal’s issuance of the final ruling on July 12 and will issue a statement on the ruling’s content,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh said on July 12.

China’s claims to historic rights for waters within the nine-dash line are contrary to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague said.

The Vietnam Fisheries Trade Union (VFTU) objected to Chinese vessels attacking Vietnamese fishing boats in a statement on July 11.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a meeting in Hanoi on July 11 with Lao Minister and Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Office Phet Phomphiphack, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.