VGP – China’s placement of the drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 in the East Viet Nam Sea violates the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as the oil rig is located well within Viet Nam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.

VGP – Russian professor Kolotov said that it is a fine tradition of Viet Nam to say that the country will never trade independence, self-reliance, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and maritime zones for some kind of elusive, dependent peace and friendship.

VGP – China recently intentionally misqouted a diplomatic letter of late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, addressed to China on September 14, 1958, with the aim of distorting the truth of Viet Nam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

VGP - Japan is concerned about tensions generated by China’s unilateral illegal placement of its Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig in Vietnamese waters and supports Viet Nam’s proper stance.

VGP – PM Nguyen Tan Dung on May 22 delivered remarks at the opening session of the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2014 in Manila, the Philippines.

VGP – On their second working day of the seventh session, the National Assembly (NA) discussed the East Sea situations and China’s illegal placement of its drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou 981 in Viet Nam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf as well as Viet Nam’s guidelines and solutions.

VGP – PM Nguyen Tan Dung on May 22 met with Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab on the sideline of the WEF on East Asia.