The global situation’s impacts on East Sea disputes and recent developments related to the East Sea issue were analysed at an international conference in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on Nov.23.
The parties involved in disputes in the East Sea need to exercise restraint and settle disputes by peaceful means, through dialogues and in line with international law, said UN Chief Ban Ki-moon.
US President Barack Obama and his Filipino counterpart Benigno Aquino agreed that territorial tensions at sea should be resolved peacefully in accordance with international law.
Measures to address e-commerce related disputes between Vietnamese and Japanese firms were sought at a workshop held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 12.
Defence ministers from ten ASEAN member states and their partners will talk over measures to boost security and defence cooperation for regional peace, sustainability and development.
Recent tensions in the East Sea, disputes over sea and island sovereignty, and the employment of international law were discussed at a recent seminar in Lorient, in France’s Bretagne region.
Vietnam aims to reduce processing time for commercial disputes to 200 working days from the current 400 working days, as the country continued with administrative reforms.
A delegation of the Supreme People’s Court led by Chief Judge Truong Hoa Binh attended the eighth Asia-Pacific Judicial Reform Forum in Vladivostok city, Russia, on October 2.
Filipino Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario - and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed territorial tensions in the Bien Dong Sea (East Sea) on the sidelines of the AMM 48 in Malaysia.
A workshop took place in Tokyo on July 22-23 to seek avenues to promote international cooperation for peace and stability in Asian waters and to cool tensions in the East Sea.
Businesses and banks in Vietnam still resolve disputes through the
courts, even though arbitration and mediation remain the most popular
methods throughout the world in dealing with banking disputes.
A raft of lecturers, scholars and international students attended a
discussion on Vietnam and disputes in the East Sea held by the Strategic
and Defence Studies Centre under the Australian National University on
June 10.
ASEAN-Malaysia National Secretariat Director-General Muhammad Shahrul
Ikram Yaakob said on June 10 that the Association of the Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) believes a judicious mechanism could solve disputes in
the East Sea.
The territorial disputes in East Sea was the centre of discussions at
a conference titled ‘ASEAN Maritime Space Management – Ideas for
Argentina’, which was held on May 20 at the Interamerican Open
University (UAI) in Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires.
The territorial dispute in the East Sea and terrorism are the two key issues that regional leaders must keep a watchful eye on, said Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
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