It is international law that Vietnam should rely on, Associate Professor
cum Doctor Nguyen Ba Dien, Head of the International Law Subject of the
Law Faculty under the Hanoi National University said in an interview
with the People’s Army newspaper on May 16, regarding China's illegal
placement of the drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 deep in Vietnam’s
exclusive economic zone.
About 250 overseas Vietnamese in Bulgaria gathered at a meeting on
May 13 to protest China ’s illegal placement of its Haiyang Shiyou-981
oil rig in Vietnam ’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
Elders from the Association of Hung Kings Temple in San Jose city, the
US state of California, have handed a letter demanding China’s
withdrawal of its rig from Vietnam’s waters over to the Chinese General
Consulate in San Francisco.
The Vietnam War Veterans’
Association (VWVA) and the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) on May 13
strongly protested China ’s illegal placement of a drilling rig in
Vietnam ’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
A Vietnamese delegation led by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung actively
participated in the 24th ASEAN Summit, which successfully took place
in Myanmar on May 10-11.
The state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)’s
operations in Vietnam ’s exclusive economic zone are against the
practice of international oil and gas activities, hurting the mutual
trust and the motto of cooperation and friendship between Vietnam and
China, said the Vietnam Petroleum Association (VPA).
The Vietnam Lawyers’ Association (VLA) on May 9 called on legal
practitioners around the world to raise their voice to protect justice
and international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The establishment of Con Co Island Marine Reserve is a basis for central
Quang Tri province to manage its marine resources and environment in a
collective, unified and effective way.
Vietnam welcomes oil-related partnerships with foreigners in its
exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said in a press conference on Apr. 12.
Vietnam Oil and Gas Association (VOGA) strongly opposed the acts of
Chinese marine surveillance vessels, which recently cut the survey
cables of a Vietnamese ship operating on the continental shelf of
Vietnam.
