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US proposes measures to deescalate East Sea tensions

A US Department of State representative at the fourth annual conference on the East Sea on July 11 presented Washington proposals on specific steps to ease tensions in the region.
A US Department of State representative at the fourth annualconference on the East Sea on July 11 presented Washington proposals onspecific steps to ease tensions in the region.

Michael Fuchs, USDeputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategy and MultilateralAffairs, expressed concern over escalating tensions in the East Sea andsaid China’s provocative and unilateral behaviours raise doubts aboutits willingness in respecting international law.

Fuchs said theUS hopes the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Chinawill have a real discussion to fulfil commitments of restraint in theDeclaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), and towardsa Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).

According to the USofficial, Washington has called on the claimant states to make clear andvoluntarily stop the actions that escalate tension in the region,helping create room for peaceful solutions.

He suggested thesides involved recommit to not set up new military bases, and definechanges relating to building and upgrading structures in line with thestatus quo in 2002.

At the conference, lawyer Pau Reichler,attorney and legal adviser for the Philippines in the suit against Chinaat the International Tribute on the Law of the Sea, delivered a speechon China’s nine-dash line claim.

The fourth annual conference onthe East Sea was held on July 10 and 11 in Washington DC by the Centrefor Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), with the recent trendsin the East Sea and US policy to the issue as a focus.

Leadingscholars from the US, China, India, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, thePhilippines and Vietnam participated in the event to seek measures toease tensions in the region.

Participantsanalysed the recent developments in the East Sea, especially China’s illegal placement of its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 deep insideVietnam ’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf in early Mayand the Philippines’ lawsuit against China at the InternationalTribunal for the Law of the Sea.-VNA
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