Vietnam’s foreign
ministry spokesperson said Tuesday that China has seriously violated
Vietnam’s sovereignty by installing military jamming equipment on outposts in
Truong Sa, Spratly Islands off the South China Sea, commonly known as the East
Sea in Vietnam.
Le Thi Thu Hang
told the press that the establishment of China's electronic warfare
equipment to cause radio jamming on Mischief Reef and Fiery
Cross on Truong Sa goes against international conventions and Vietnam
requested the northern neighbor to remove the system.
She also told the
press that China has repeatedly acted counter to international rules with its
recent activities in the East Sea, including the underwater construction of You
Lian Tuo 9 vessel and a sailboat race in waters off Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands,
which belong to Vietnam.
Such activities go against fundamental principles that
Vietnam and China have agreed on, the Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties
in the East Sea (DOC), complicate the situation and do not benefit maintenance
of peace, stability and cooperation in the sea.
Earlier on Tuesday, Vietnam’s agriculture ministry wrote to
coastal cities and provinces, telling them to assure fishermen and asserting
that a fishing ban issued by China last year “has no value.”
China’s Ministry of Agriculture in March last year released
a ban on fishing in a number of areas from May 1 to August 16 this year, which
include the Gulf of Tonkin near the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands in the East Sea.
Since then, Vietnam has condemned the ban, saying China’s
move has seriously violated its maritime sovereignty over the Paracels.
Satellite imagery
taken by commercial satellite company DigitalGlobe shows a suspected jammer
system with its antenna extended on Mischief Reef in the South China Sea, Reuters cited the Wall Street Journal as saying.
(Souce: Vnexpress.net)
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