Spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry Le Thi Thu Hang on June 24 emphasised Vietnam’s demand for the relevant parties to not take any action that further complicates the situation in the East Sea, but contribute to the maintenance of peace and stability in the waters.
US Senator Jim Risch, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with three others, namely Bob Menendez, Cory Gardner and Ed Markey, on April 11 criticised the Chinese Coast Guard’s recent sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago waters in the East Sea.
The Vietnam - China relations have developed stably in the past year, with regular exchanges of delegations at all levels, effective collaborative mechanisms, and flourishing cooperation in various sectors, Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Sao Mai recently told Chinese press.
Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son and his Mexican counterpart Julian Ventura Valero have compared notes on measures to strengthen relations between the two countries and foreign ministries.
Maritime security is among the issues drawing much attention at the ongoing 8th vice-ministerial Seoul Defence Dialogue in the Republic of Korea (RoK), according to Deputy Defence Minister, Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh.
France, Germany and the UK on August 29 released a joint statement expressing their concern about the situation in the South China Sea( known as East Sea in Vietnam) which they said could lead to insecurity and instability in the region.
Senior officials’ meetings within the framework of the ASEAN+3, the East Asia Summit (EAS) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) took place in Singapore on June 6 and 7.
Vietnam-Japan relations are at their best point since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties 45 years ago, President Tran Dai Quang told Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party Kazuo Shii.
The foreign ministers of the Group Seven (G7)- Cananda, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US expressed concern about the situation in the East and South China seas in the communiqué issued following their meeting in Toronto early this week.
International experts and scholars at the eighth International Conference on the East Sea have forecast that the situation in the waters will remain stable in the near future.
ASEAN leaders continue to voice deep concerns about the East Sea situation in the Chairman’s Statement of the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits, which was issued on September 7 afternoon.
Vietnam requested China to cancel its oil drilling plan and promptly remove its Haiyang Shiyou 981drilling rig out of the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin whose delineation is under negotiation.
Thirty-one Vietnamese, French and French-Vietnamese associations and
organisations have signed a petition showing their concerns over China’s
recent actions that complicated tensions in the East Sea.
Polish researchers, politicians and reporters as well as overseas
Vietnamese in Poland gathered in a seminar in Warsaw on June 11 to
discuss issues related to recent developments in the East Sea.
The European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Countries of
Southeast Asia and the ASEAN held a talk in Strasbourg, France on June
10 with ASEAN ambassadors and chiefs of diplomatic missions to discuss
EU-ASEAN relations as well as regional and international issues of
mutual concern.
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of China's People's Liberation Army,
Sun Jianguo, told the 14 th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May
31 that the situation on the East Sea is generally peaceful and
stable.
Leading experts and scholars from US universities and institutes came
together at a workshop in Washington last weekend to discuss the
convergence of marine science and geopolitics in the East Sea.
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