General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong on Friday asked Russian parliament's lower house to support Hanoi's position in a dispute over the South China Sea.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th September, 2018) General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong on Friday asked Russian parliament's lower house to support Hanoi's position in a dispute over the South China Sea.
Trong made his statement during a meeting between the Vietnamese delegation and Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin in Moscow.
"I would like to ask the State Duma ... to support the position of Vietnam on [ensuring] a peaceful solution of all disputes in the South China Sea and East Sea based on international law, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as well as on respect for all political, diplomatic and legal processes," Trong said.
The South China Sea, which Hanoi calls the East Sea, is a source of tensions between several states within the region including China, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.
China considers the Spratly archipelago, a group of artificial islands located in the South China Sea, as its territory, despite an international tribunal ruling that these claims have no legal basis.
