Vietnam: Protest against China for violation of territorial sovereignty
Vietnam yesterday formally accused China of violating its territorial sovereignty and circumventing the rules of a pact of confidence building measures, after the aircraft landing on runways that Beijing has built an artificial island on a controversial piece of South Indian Sea.
The foreign ministry spokesman Li Hai Bin said the runway "built illegally" in the reef Friery Cross, the Spratly archipelago, a "part of the Spratly belonging to Vietnam."
The Chinese Defense Ministry refuted the protest, claiming that this was a test flight in the newly built airstrip on the reef, noting that was "exclusively within China's sovereign territory," reported the Chinese state news agency "New China".
The United States of America expressed concern that the implementation of flight escalating interstate tensions.
Washington has criticized the Chinese manufactures artificial islands in the South Sea Sinica and supports that Beijing plans to use the premises for military purposes, even if China asserts that it has no hostile intentions.
A State Department spokesman said it is "imperative to countries claim areas for public mutual cease further restoration works engagement, construction of new facilities and militarization disputed areas".
"We urge all countries involved in practice to reduce tensions and avoid unilateral actions which could undermine regional stability and to take steps to allow it to emerge substantial diplomatic solutions," said the State Department spokesman.
The spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Tsoungingk Hua said that China has used aircraft of Civil Aviation to carry out flight to test the airport's facilities to meet the standards of civil aviation.
"China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nanscha islands and adjacent waters. China is not going to accept the unfounded accusation of the Vietnamese side," he said, referring to Spratly with Chinese name.
At the same time he added that China hopes Vietnam will work for a "sustainable, healthy and stable" development of bilateral relations.
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry announced that Vietnam presented a formal protest to the Chinese Embassy and called on Beijing not to repeat the act, and called the flight "a serious violation of Vietnam's sovereignty in the Spratly archipelago."
Beijing also claims nearly all the South Sea Sinica, based primarily on a boundary that is distinguished by dashed lines in Chinese maps of the 1940s is an issue that is a cause of tension in territorial disputes with its neighbors, including Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei in South Sinica Sea, a sea passage which cross each time cargo ships, carrying goods worth $ 5 trillion.
China completed the construction of a runway on the reef Fiery Cross, which security experts note that can serve primarily warplanes China.
Vietnam yesterday formally accused China of violating its territorial sovereignty and circumventing the rules of a pact of confidence building measures, after the aircraft landing on runways that Beijing has built an artificial island on a controversial piece of South Indian Sea.
The foreign ministry spokesman Li Hai Bin said the runway "built illegally" in the reef Friery Cross, the Spratly archipelago, a "part of the Spratly belonging to Vietnam."
The Chinese Defense Ministry refuted the protest, claiming that this was a test flight in the newly built airstrip on the reef, noting that was "exclusively within China's sovereign territory," reported the Chinese state news agency "New China".
The United States of America expressed concern that the implementation of flight escalating interstate tensions.
Washington has criticized the Chinese manufactures artificial islands in the South Sea Sinica and supports that Beijing plans to use the premises for military purposes, even if China asserts that it has no hostile intentions.
A State Department spokesman said it is "imperative to countries claim areas for public mutual cease further restoration works engagement, construction of new facilities and militarization disputed areas".
"We urge all countries involved in practice to reduce tensions and avoid unilateral actions which could undermine regional stability and to take steps to allow it to emerge substantial diplomatic solutions," said the State Department spokesman.
The spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Tsoungingk Hua said that China has used aircraft of Civil Aviation to carry out flight to test the airport's facilities to meet the standards of civil aviation.
"China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nanscha islands and adjacent waters. China is not going to accept the unfounded accusation of the Vietnamese side," he said, referring to Spratly with Chinese name.
At the same time he added that China hopes Vietnam will work for a "sustainable, healthy and stable" development of bilateral relations.
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry announced that Vietnam presented a formal protest to the Chinese Embassy and called on Beijing not to repeat the act, and called the flight "a serious violation of Vietnam's sovereignty in the Spratly archipelago."
Beijing also claims nearly all the South Sea Sinica, based primarily on a boundary that is distinguished by dashed lines in Chinese maps of the 1940s is an issue that is a cause of tension in territorial disputes with its neighbors, including Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei in South Sinica Sea, a sea passage which cross each time cargo ships, carrying goods worth $ 5 trillion.
China completed the construction of a runway on the reef Fiery Cross, which security experts note that can serve primarily warplanes China.
