Vietnam seeks urgent correction on Map World
“The Chinese State Bureau
of Surveying and Mapping officially providing the ‘Map World’ online
service, with a map in which the nine-segment claim line on the East Sea
is present, violates Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and
Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos,” said Nguyen Phuong Nga, a
spokesperson for Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry, in response to reporters’
questions on Vietnam’s reaction.
The act also violates
sovereignty right and jurisdiction over the exclusive economic zone and
continental shelf of Vietnam and East Sea-rim countries and completely
runs counter to regulations of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the
Sea and the spirit of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the
East Sea (DOC), she said on Jan. 26.
”Vietnam protests China’s act and asks China to immediately remove incorrect information on
the above-mentioned map,” she said./.