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Germany tightens security for G20 summit

(VOVWORLD) -Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz vowed to ensure security during the G20 summit. He said about 20,000 police will be deployed on city streets on July 7-8. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark ...

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Arab countries inform WTO actions to boycott Qatar

(VOVWORLD) – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt informed the World Trade Organization on Friday of the legality of their actions after boycotting Qatar, exercising their sovereign rights guaranteed by international law to protect their national security. Foreign ...

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South China Sea Weekly Review (10-16/6)

16 June 2017 – Speaking during a visit of USS Sterett guided-missile destroyer to Zhanjiang, Guangdong province (China), US Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Scott Swift (June 15) said the naval vessels would increase their stay in the South China Sea ...

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Philippines urges China to respect PCA’s ruling

(VOVworld) – Philippine’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged China to respect the ruling made by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague, Netherlands, which rejected China’s sovereignty claims in the East Sea. Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay. (Photo: AFP) ...

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China releases white book on PCA ruling

(VOVworld)- China on Tuesday rejected an international ruling on the East Sea, which went in favour of the Philippines, as “null and void” and devoid of any “binding force”. A conference to release China’s white book on PCA ruling Vice ...

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China’s reaction to PCA’s ruling

(VOVworld)- The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague, the Netherlands, on Tuesday ruled that China violated the Philippines’s sovereign rights in exploring resources surrounding the Reed Bank in the East Sea. Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Hong Lei However, ...

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PCA award helps resolve East Sea issue

(VOVworld) – One month after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) decided an award on the Philippines’ arbitration proceedings against China on the interpretation and application of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the public shows ...

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Conference on the East Sea after PCA’s ruling in South Korea

(VOVworld) – Vietnamese and South Korean scholars said the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s July ruling on the Philippine’s lawsuit against China in the East Sea presented opportunities to resolve maritime sovereignty among claimants. Vietnamese and South Korean scholars attend a ...

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Workshop on the East Sea in India

Workshop on the East Sea in India Friday, December 02, 2016 – 18:25:39 (VOVworld) – The Vietnamese Ambassador to India Ton Sinh Thanh says Vietnam has sovereign right and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zone in the East Sea. At ...

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Vietnam’s sovereignty over Spratly, Paracel confirmed

(VOVworld) – Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spartly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes has been exercised since the Nguyen dynasty 200 years ago, said Associate Professor Do Bang, chairman of Thua Thien-Hue Association of Historical Science, at a workshop ...

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