Vietnam rejects so-called “nine-dash line” in East Sea
(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam rejects any maritime claims by China that are based on the so-called “nine-dash line” in the East Sea (internationally known as the South China Sea), a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said.
 Vietnam's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang. |
Ms. Le Thi Thu Hang made the statement on Friday in response to reporters’ queries about Vietnam’s reaction to the publication of a Chinese map with the “nine-dash line” by some social networking accounts registered by Chinese representative agencies abroad.
She reiterated Vietnam’s clear and consistent stance on the East Sea issue, and stressed that the country has sufficient legal grounds and historic evidence affirming its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, as well as its sovereignty, sovereignty rights and jurisdiction over territorial waters defined in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).