(VOVworld) – Vietnam has expressed its concerns over China’s construction of a military helicopter base in Quang Hoa or Duncan Island and deployment of an HQ-9 surface-to-air missile system to Phu Lam or Woody island belonging to Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.

(VOVworld)- On Wednesday, Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha stressed the importance of maintaining regional stability in the Asia-Pacific and expressed full support for the international community in finding peaceful solutions to disputes in the East Sea.

(VOVworld) – The Malaysian news agency Bernama quoted Prime Minister Najib Razak as saying that ASEAN leaders have reiterated their stand on wanting a peaceful resolution to overlapping territorial claims in the East Sea.

(VOVworld) – On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama called for “tangible steps” to lower tensions in the East Sea.

(VOVworld) – On Tuesday Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held talks with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the ASEAN-US Summit in Sunnylands. President Obama said he will visit Vietnam in May to learn more about Vietnam, its land, people, and culture and discuss ways to maintain momentum for the US-Vietnam comprehensive cooperative partnership. Prime Minister Dung said the visit will initiate a new period of cooperation and development between the two countries.

(VOVworld) - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Canadian counterpart Stephane Dion have agreed on cooperation on a number of issues during their talks on Friday in Ottawa, Canada.

(VOVworld) - Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh has reiterated that Vietnam has enough legal and historical evidence to assert Vietnam’s indisputable sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

(VOVworld) - Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Hoang Anh Tuan penned an article to refute unconvincing arguments made by Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Xu Bu claiming China’s sovereignty over the East Sea. Xu Bu’s arguments were written in his article “Maintaining peace and stability in the East Sea” published in the Jakarta Post.

(VOVworld) - Head of the Party Central Committee’s External Relations Commission called for the application of historical evidence and international law in settling differences between Vietnam, China and other countries about the East Sea issue.

(VOVworld) – The Vietnam News Agency has interviewed Doctor Takashi Hosoda a lecturer at the Charles University in Prague on the importance of ensuring navigation safety and security in the East Sea. He said that Beijing has used legally groundless documents such as literary works for its sovereignty claim in the East Sea.