(VOVworld) - Nearly 100 scholars and researches from Vietnam, the US, Australia, Japan, the Philippines and India discussed the East Sea issue at a workshop in the central province of Khanh Hoa on Wednesday.

China's illegal construction on Vietnam's Phu Lam island (Source: VNA)
The event was co-organized by universities of Pham Van Dong and Nha Trang. The workshop focused on legal regulations on islands and rocks in international law and practice in the East Sea, the disputes of sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes, the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s ruling over the Philippines’s lawsuit against

China. The workshop affords participants a chance to clarify legal regulations in accordance with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). On the occasion, an exhibition featuring historic evidence on Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa was also opened.

In another development, the Vietnamese Association of Historical Sciences held a workshop to discuss the East Sea situation and the PCA’s ruling over the Philippines’s lawsuit against China, based on the 7th appendix of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. From this analysis, historians are expected to have research and consultancy to the Party and State in communicating, and educating on Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea.