Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang (Photo: VNA)

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang made the statement on Saturday in response to reporters’ questions about Vietnam’s viewpoint on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the Arbitral Tribunal Ruling on the East Sea (internationally known as the South China Sea).

Ms. Hang reaffirmed Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in accordance with international law and Vietnam’s legal rights to waters defined in the 1982 UNCLOS.