HANOI, 08 April 2022, (TON): Vietnam demands that China respect its sovereignty in the South China Sea and calls on the Chinese side to immediately stop conducting military exercises that violate Vietnam’s sovereign rights to the Spratly archipelago and the Paracel Islands.
This was stated at a briefing by Deputy Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Pham Thu Hang, answering a question about Hanoi’s reaction to China’s military exercises in the South China Sea from March 19 to April 9.
According to her “Vietnam asked the Chinese side to stop these actions, which violate the exclusive economic zone of Vietnam, defined in accordance with the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.”
The deputy director of the information and press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam said “we urge to exercise restraint and not to take actions to aggravate the situation, to contribute to maintaining peace, security and stability in the East Sea.”
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