(VOVworld) – Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has pledged Indonesia will help search for a solution to the current tensions in the East Sea.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has pledged Indonesia will help search for a solution to the current tensions in the East Sea

Natalegawa was speaking to the press on the sidelines of a conference on a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Jakarta on Monday. He said he had talked on the phone with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh about the East Sea situation. He called on all parties to respect international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) to ease current tensions. He stressed that the East Sea issues should be resolved through peaceful negotiations without threats or use of violence.