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Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Dung |
Vietnam has sufficient historical proof and legal basis to assert its indisputable sovereignty on the Paracel and Spratly Archipelagos, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Dung said yesterday.
Dung made the statement in response to a media query on Vietnam's reaction to the Chinese Foreign Minister's comments objecting to the construction of a gas pipe line on the Spratly Islands under a co-operative project between the Viet Nam Oil and Gas Corporation and British Petroleum.
"Every activity carried out by Vietnam on the country's archipelagos and territorial waters, including the division into blocks, exploration and exploitation of oil and gas, is normal and suitable with Vietnam's laws as well as international law, especially with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982 and the spirit of the declaration on the conduct of parties in the East Sea in 2002," Dung said.
He said the co-operation project between the Viet Nam Oil and Gas Corporation and British Petroleum, which had been implemented since 2000, was being carried out in the bounds of Vietnam's exclusive economic zones and continental shelf, completely under the sovereignty of Vietnam.
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