BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Vietnam have agreed to find a solution to a festering maritime territorial dispute this year, the two sides said in a joint statement in Beijing.
The two countries dispute sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, a string of rocky outcrops in the South China Sea suspected of containing large oil and gas deposits and also claimed by Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.
They also agreed to consult on finding "a proper area and way of making joint exploration," the statement said, according to Xinhua news agency.
"The two countries will coordinate more closely to solve the remaining problems, so as to ensure they complete demarcation and erecting land markers along the whole borderline by year end," Xinhua quoted the joint statement as saying.
China supported the Vietnamese Communists in their decades-long war against South Vietnam and its U.S. sponsors.
But Vietnam has traditionally been wary of its larger Asian neighbor and in 1979 the two countries fought a brief border war after Vietnam occupied Cambodia and overthrew the murderous Khmer Rouge regime that favored Beijing.
Beijing and Hanoi normalized relations in 1991.
In 1988, China and Vietnam fought a brief naval battle near one of the Spratly reefs in which more than 70 Vietnamese sailors died.
Another set of islets further north of the Spratly group, the Paracel Islands, were seized by China in 1974 and have been occupied by them ever since despite Vietnamese protests.
In July, China told Exxon Mobil Corp to pull out of an oil exploration deal with Vietnam that it saw as a breach of Chinese sovereignty.
(Reporting by Nick Macfie; Editing by David Fox)
The two countries dispute sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, a string of rocky outcrops in the South China Sea suspected of containing large oil and gas deposits and also claimed by Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.
They also agreed to consult on finding "a proper area and way of making joint exploration," the statement said, according to Xinhua news agency.
"The two countries will coordinate more closely to solve the remaining problems, so as to ensure they complete demarcation and erecting land markers along the whole borderline by year end," Xinhua quoted the joint statement as saying.
China supported the Vietnamese Communists in their decades-long war against South Vietnam and its U.S. sponsors.
But Vietnam has traditionally been wary of its larger Asian neighbor and in 1979 the two countries fought a brief border war after Vietnam occupied Cambodia and overthrew the murderous Khmer Rouge regime that favored Beijing.
Beijing and Hanoi normalized relations in 1991.
In 1988, China and Vietnam fought a brief naval battle near one of the Spratly reefs in which more than 70 Vietnamese sailors died.
Another set of islets further north of the Spratly group, the Paracel Islands, were seized by China in 1974 and have been occupied by them ever since despite Vietnamese protests.
In July, China told Exxon Mobil Corp to pull out of an oil exploration deal with Vietnam that it saw as a breach of Chinese sovereignty.
(Reporting by Nick Macfie; Editing by David Fox)
6 comments:
Hey ah yuon why are you trying to steal the Spratly Islands from China? Bandit race never change.
Give back to China before you a big chunk to China.
Dear China you are a real tiger careless about Viet Nam it make every one loosing their face ,we think you can teach Viet Nam.
think about koh tral island? my home town occupied by vietnam. don't you khmer people think about that. why are you admiring china and vietnam's problem? Think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
China about to teach Vietnam the 2nd lesson. Vietnam is an old fox.
Do you want to play with Dragon?huh?
We just need khmer helping khmer not anything else. We just need Siem away from our land and Viet too. Cambodia land become smaller,becuase the fucking government of khmer gave to them.Because khmer never working together just want to scaming for each other.
Correct, but that is why the Khmer in Thailand needs Thai to protect them from the greedy monkeys from Cambodia, and the Khmer in Vietnam need Yuon to protect them from the same greedy monkey in Cambodia, and that goes for the Khmer in Laos as well. No one can trust a greedy and desperate monkeys in Cambodia.
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