(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has concluded a trip to Thailand to attend the 35th ASEAN Summit and related meetings. Other attending countries showed special concern about peace and stability in the East Sea and supported Vietnam’s stance in the East Sea issue. They expressed high hopes for Vietnam’s ASEAN Chairmanship in 2020 and Non-Permanent Membership on the UN Security Council in the 2020-2021 tenure.

(VOVWORLD) -The 11th East Sea International Conference has opened in Hanoi under the theme “Cooperation for regional security and development”.

(VOVWORLD) - The 35th ASEAN Summit has concluded after a 3-day meeting in Bangkok. Discussions on the East Sea and progress toward the Code of Conduct of Parties in the East Sea drew lots of public attention. The Summit reconfirmed ASEAN’s stance of unity and self-reliance which has underpinned its success over the past 5 decades.

(VOVWORLD) - Experts reiterated the significance of respecting international regulations in settling disputes in the East Sea at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Since early July, a Chinese survey vessel and its armed escorts have encroached on Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. Vietnam has called on China to obey international law to maintain order, peace, and stability in the East Sea, and together with the international community has opposed China’s transgressions to protect Vietnam’s legitimate rights in the East Sea.

(VOVWORLD) -Assistant Secretary David Stilwell Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the US Department of State has delivered a statement on US policy in the Indo-Pacific region and implementation of the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018, or ARIA.

(VOVWORLD) -China’s deployment of survey vessel group Haiyang Dizhi-8 to the Tu Chinh reef (Vanguard Bank) in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) has violated international law, Associate Prof. Ryan Martinson of the US Naval War College said in an article recently published on the Republic of Korea’s m.newsprime.co.kr website.

(VOVWORLD) - China’s vessel Haiyang Yizhi 8 and its escorts encroaching in Vietnamese waters have revoked a backlash internationally. China’s activities have put the region and the world at risk and triggered a negative reaction.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam owns convincing evidence affirming its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago in the East Sea, said a Russian expert in foreign policy, defense and security

(VOVWORLD) - China's claims of sovereignty over most of the areas in the East Sea are invalid in legality and its unilateral actions in the sea are illegitimate, according to lawyer Bernard Insel, a Belgian expert of international maritime law.