SOURCE : Viet Nam News (27-01-11)
HA NOi — Viet Nam has protested against information provided by China on January 18 to the Map World service, in which the nine-segment claim line on the East Sea continued to be present, and asked China to remove the incorrect data immediately.
“The Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping’s official provision of the ‘Map World’ online service in which the nine-segment claim line on the East Sea is present violates Viet Nam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos,” said Nguyen Phuong Nga, the spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, in response to reporters’ questions on Viet Nam’s reaction.
The act also violated sovereign rights and jurisdiction rights over the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Viet Nam and East Sea-rim countries, and completely ran counter to regulations of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the spirit of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea, she said yesterday.
“Viet Nam protests China’s action and asks China to immediately remove incorrect information on the above-mentioned map,” she said. — VNS
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