Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi will attend the dialogue between the Co-chairs of the Steering Committee for bilateral cooperation, the spokesman said at an international press conference in Hanoi on June 16.
Vietnam has exhausted all dialogue channels with China to seek a peaceful solution to the current tension in the East Sea , Binh stated.
Answering a reporter’s question on Vietnam ’s evidence affirming its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, Vice Chairman of the National Boundary Commission (NBC) Tran Duy Hai said that legal documents from the feudal period show that Vietnam ’s feudal states sent fleets to exploit and perform tasks in the two archipelagoes in early date.
For a country that wishes to set up its sovereignty over a territory, it must exercise activities of sovereignty under the capacity of the State. The documents held by Vietnam are legally recognised to affirm the country’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, he stressed.
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