Keyword: "sovereignty claims"

An international workshop on cooperation in the East Sea took place at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Moscow on June 22.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on August 4 held a phone talk with Bruneian Foreign Minister II Erywan Yusof, during which he reaffirmed Washington’s support for Southeast Asian countries in upholding their sovereign rights against China’s unlawful maritime claims in the East Sea.

In late 2019 and early 2020 China announced its “Four-Sha” sovereignty claims over the East Sea in two diplomatic notes sent to the UN Secretary-General, with the aim of replacing the so-called “nine-dash line” that had been previously rejected by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

China's sovereignty claims over most of the areas in the East Sea are invalid in legality and its unilateral actions in the sea are illegitimate, a Belgian expert of international maritime law has said.

The Indonesian Foreign Ministry and the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies opened a seminar in Indonesia on November 16, focusing discussions on managing potential conflict in the East Sea.

The Philippines on July 14 urged China to respect the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling that rejected Beijing’s sovereignty claims in the East Sea.

The 6th CSIS East Sea conference took place in Washington D.C. on July 12, shortly after the ruling on the Philippines's case against China’s unfounded sovereignty claims in the waters was issued.

President Barack Obama has urged the US Congress to approve the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).