The EU is committed to the legal order for the seas and oceans based upon international law, maritime security and cooperation, as well as the freedom of navigation and overflight, in the interest of all states, EU Ambassador to ASEAN Igor Driesmans told a Vietnam News Agency reporter in Jakarta on April 26.
General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Van Tuan has stated that Vietnam welcomes visitors across the world to the country, however, they must abide by Vietnamese law.
Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Le Luong Minh on November 14 stressed that a legally-binding Code of Conduct (COC) is necessary to ease tensions over territorial claims in the East Sea.
Marcel Winter, President of the Czech – Vietnamese Society, recently refuted a newspaper article showing China’s wrongful viewpoints on the East Sea situation.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman repeated Vietnam’s stance on the East Sea issue on July 14, two days after the ruling on the Philippines’s case against China’s territorial claims was issued.
Vietnamese shares on July 13 extended gains for a second session as investors became highly confident after a decision was made by the PCA to reject China’s territorial claim over the East Sea.
The verdict on the case filed by the Philippines against China’s territorial claims in the East Sea, in the long term, will substantially contribute to peace and stability in the region.
Vietnam will keep a close watch on the process of the East Sea-related case filed by the Philippines, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson asserted on October 31.
China’s construction on islands in disputed East Sea areas is “unwarranted provocation”, Malaysian armed forces chief Zulkefli Mohd Zin said at a security forum in Beijing on October 18.
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