How East Sea issues weigh on at ASEAN meetings?
ASEAN is urged to keep its position to maintain balance and regard UNCLOS 1982 as the legal basis of all activities at sea.
ASEAN is urged to keep its position to maintain balance and regard UNCLOS 1982 as the legal basis of all activities at sea.
ASEAN countries and China have been urged to speed up COC negotiations.
The UK is the third country outside the South China Sea region to protest China’s claims in the resources-rich sea.
With Malaysia's latest move, the rejection of China’s maritime claims in the resources-rich sea weighs on than ever before.
ASEAN said the 1982 UNCLOS sets out the legal framework within which all activities in the oceans and seas must obey.
The intrusion takes places after a Chinese survey vessel and escorts violated Vietnamese waters for almost three months last year.
Vietnam said China’s claims go beyond the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The trade deal would create favorable conditions for greater cooperation in trade and investment between the two countries.
Signed in 2000, the maritime delimitation agreement in the Gulf of Tonkin establishes the first maritime boundary between China and Vietnam.
Chinese aggression in the South China Sea has angered regional countries which demand Beijing to closely follow international law.