Entitled “East Sea: Cooperation for security and development in the region”, the two-day event will discuss factors that impact on the East Sea issue, international law and cooperation, measures to build trust at sea and preventive diplomacy.
Addressing the opening ceremony, President of the Diplomacy Academy of Vietnam, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, said the East Sea issue developed more complicatedly in 2014 than in previous decades.
“The more complicated the situation, the more attention the international community pays to it,” he stated, adding that an amazingly large number of academic papers, pieces of journalism and politicians’ speeches had been dedicated to this issue, as well as peace and security in the region.
Myint Thu, Deputy Director of the ASEAN Affairs Department under the Foreign Ministry of Myanmar, said the East Sea issue remained a high priority for the bloc.
He reiterated the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ requirement that parties involved must not use or threaten to use force to handle disputes and accelerate the negotiations on a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).
Da Nang city’s leader Van Huu Chien also proposed experts discuss boosting maritime economic cooperation, maintaining the investment climate, increasing economic, trade and tourism ties, and ensuring the safety of fishermen.
He also suggested seeking the role and contributions of littoral localities of countries concerned in safeguarding peace and accelerating cooperation in the East Sea.
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