His statement was in reply to reporters’ queries about Vietnam’s response to the April 9 speech by Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying about the expansion of underground reefs in Truong Sa.
On this issue, he said Vietnam has conducted a number of interventions, including high-level exchanges with China.
Each construction and expansion project by foreigners on reef islands in Hoang Sa and Truong Sa that is not explicitly permitted by the Government of Vietnam is illegal and invalid, he stated.
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