Vietnamese and foreign legal experts are
gathering at an international workshop opened in Ho Chi Minh City on July 26 to
debate legal issues regarding China’s illegal placement of its Haiyang
Shiyou-981 oil rig inside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continent
shelf.
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The
conference in HCM city
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The foreign experts came from the US, Russia,
Italia, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Thailand, the Republic of Korea, India,
the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.
The experts focused on analysing China’s actions
from the viewpoint of international law, while discussing the settlement of
territorial disputes through political and diplomatic measures regulated in
international law.
They will also evaluate applying legal measures
to solve current disputes in the East Sea as well as explored in depth
conditions and mechanisms for beginning a legal proceedings and legal values of
judgement of international court and arbitration on the issue.
In his opening speech, Prof., Dr. Mai Hong Quy
from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law- the host of the event- underlined
the necessity of maintaining stability, cooperation and development in the East
Sea, which is an international lifeline sea route and holds an important
geopolitical position globally.
“Preserving the environment of stability, cooperation
and development in the East Sea is an obligation of all nations and a crucial
element to ensure peace, security, navigation and aviation freedom and
international trade,” Quy said.
Scholars will also propose peaceful measures to
resolve disputes in the East Sea in general and those between Vietnam and China
in particular in line with international law, including the United Nations
Charter and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Source: VNA
