Yi said China has been shocked by the interference from the Vietnamese side against China’s normal drilling operations there. The Chinese vessels at the scene are only government and civil vessels, but the Vietnamese side has deployed many armed vessels.
He added China’s drilling operations are being conducted in waters only 17 nautical miles from China’s Xisha Islands.
Whereas the operations are about 150 nautical miles from Vietnam. Chinese oil companies started drilling operations near Xisha Islands a decade ago.
From May to June last year, Chinese companies scanned the ocean floor prior to further drilling. Yi Xianliang noted the operations of Chinese companies in waters off the Xisha Islands fell completely within China’s sovereign rights. He said, Vietnam’s actions have violated international laws, infringed on China’s sovereignty and jurisdiction, and endangered navigational freedom.
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Myanmar will likely distance itself from bilateral and territorial disputes during the 24th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that kicked off Saturday....
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Myanmar will attempt to "consider the feelings of all member states," he said, quoted by state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar.
"As a member of ASEAN we will always represent the common position of the bloc. We will not be involved in bilateral issues but within the ASEAN context we will always be part of the bloc's decisions," he added.
On the role of Myanmar as the current rotating ASEAN chair, Lynn said one of the priorities of his country's chairmanship is to accomplish the common goal of a single market in 2015.
"We will try and accomplish the remaining tasks of ASEAN community building as much as we can during our chairmanship, and I believe we will be successful. We will be handing over the chairmanship to Malaysia next year and Malaysia has an important mission during its chairmanship, so we don't want to leave them a lot of leftover work."...............http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/859651.shtml
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