AFP
Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang Wednesday backed a Philippine proposal for a peace zone in the disputed South China Sea at a meeting with President Benigno Aquino.
The two Southeast Asian countries have overlapping claims over the Spratly Islands. Brunei, China, Malaysia and Taiwan also have claims, leading to rising tensions in the reputedly resource-rich waters that host key shipping lanes.
Aquino has been trying to encourage Southeast Asian neighbours to form a united front against China's sovereignty claim over all of the South China Sea.
"We also exchanged information and views on issues relating to the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) and reaffirmed the importance of the maintenance of peace, stability, maritime safety and security in the region," Aquino said.
Sang, speaking with Aquino at a joint news conference during a state visit, said his country supported Philippine calls for settling the disputes through international law and the creation of a "zone of peace" in the South China Sea.
"We again affirm the importance of the maintenance of peace, stability, security, safety and freedom of navigation in the East Sea (Vietnam's name for the area) to the region as well as to the parties concerned," Sang said.
"We also affirmed that maritime and ocean cooperation is one of the pillars of our bilateral relations," the Vietnamese ceremonial leader said.
The Philippines has accused the Chinese military of aggressive acts in the Philippine-claimed areas of the South China Sea this year, including firing on Filipino fishermen, laying buoys and harassing an oil exploration vessel.
"We agreed that a rules-based approach, adhering to international law... is essential to the pursuit of a peaceful resolution of these issues through multilateral dialogue and consultations," Aquino said.
He said he and Sang also stressed that a 2002 declaration by the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations members plus China on the conduct of the parties to the South China Sea dispute should be fully implemented.
Spratly claimants Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, along with Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand make up the ASEAN.
9 comments:
How do you feel now you fucking youn
being bullied by big brother china. so stop bully khmers.
EVEN THOUGH ANH DON'T LIKE AH YOUN SHITCONG BUT THEY ARE THE VICTIMS OF THIS SPRATLY ISLAND DISPUTE. AH COMMUNIST CHEN AND AH YOUN CAN GO TO HELL. TAKE AH ONE EYE HUN XEN ALONG WITH YOU EVIL TOO AH PRAET
Vietnam must stop complaining about the prospect that Vietnam might lose something in the China Sea.
Hypocrite Vietnam,
Give back all Khmer islands such as Koh Trol.
Also don't forget about Kampuchea Krom you thief!!
You are not a victim of anything!! You are a big time robber!!
You stole land, sea, and properties, etc...from Cambodia.
What go around come around!!
koh tral is always a khmer island, you know!
Hey, Vietcong idiot! now you are in pain when some one steal a piece of you, right? How about us? You steal our country, you idiot think we are not in pain?
We're Cambodians will back up China to distroy you idiot and cut you off in pieces. Will see you win!...You idiot prepare to go to hell, OK!
khmer people never forget koh tral and khmer krom land! we say china should nuke youn to ashes for stealing from cambodia and now want to steal from china too! shame on ah thief youn thugs!
koh tral is forever khmer island! youn go back to being a province of china again, ok!
Why can we reclaim Koh Tral and KampucheaKrom back from ah Yuon.
I hope cambodia goverment do not joint with vietnam and philipine to the china sea problem.
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