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Category: East Sea Dispute

  • Asean Issues Statement Against ‘Use of Force’ in South China Sea Disputes

    The Jakarta Globe, July 21, 2012 Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have issued a joint communique on disputes in the South China Sea, an Indonesian official said on Friday, after Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa shuttled between five Asean countries to build a consensus. A joint statement from Asean’s foreign ministers said…

  • ASEAN seeks common ground

    Vietnam News, July 20, 2012 PHNOM PENH — Cambodia and Indonesia have agreed in principle on a number of issues over the East Sea, said diplomats from the two countries. Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and his visiting Indonesian counterpart, Marty Natale-gawa told a press briefing held yesterday in Phnom Penh after their meeting, that…

  • Asean Near Consensus on Sea Row: Indonesia

    The Jakarta Globe, July 19, 2012 Southeast Asian nations are “on the cusp” of agreeing a statement of unity on the South China Sea dispute, Indonesia’s top diplomat said Thursday after meeting his Cambodian counterpart. Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has taken on the role of mediator after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)…

  • Indonesia scrambles to end ASEAN rift over sea

     July 18, 2012 11:35 AM MANILA, Philippines — Indonesia’s top diplomat started an emergency trip to Southeast Asian nations Wednesday to ease differences among them over the handling of territorial disputes in the South China Sea.Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said he met his Philippine counterpart, Albert del Rosario, in Manila on Wednesday and would…

  • ASEAN fails to reach common ground on China row

    July 13, 2012 10:10 AM PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Southeast Asian diplomats failed to reach common ground Friday on how to deal with a touchy territorial dispute involving China, as a regional conference ended without a joint statement for the first time in the bloc’s 45-year history. The failure to issue a customary statement following…

  • US and EU issue joint statement on Asia-Pacific priorities

    Press Releases: U.S.-EU Statement on the Asia-Pacific Region 07/12/2012 08:34 AM EDT U.S.-EU Statement on the Asia-Pacific Region Media Note Office of the Spokesperson US Department of State Washington, DC July 12, 2012 Following is the text of a joint statement issued by the United States of America and the European Union on July 12,…

  • Police prevents Buddhist leaders from protesting China’s expansionism

    International Buddhist Information Bureau Vietnam deploys hundreds of Security Police to prevent Thich Quang Do and UBCV Buddhists from demonstrating in Hue and Saigon PARIS, 1st July 2012 (IBIB) – From the early hours of this morning, hundreds of Security Police and people’s defence brigades surrounded key UBCV Pagodas in Hue and Ho Chi Minh…

  • Rare protest in Vietnam over China claims to offshore oil blocks

    HANOI (Reuters) – Hundreds of Vietnamese demonstrated in Hanoi on Sunday against China’s moves to strengthen its claim to disputed islands in the South China Sea and its invitation to oil firms to bid for blocks in offshore areas that Vietnam claims as its territory. The authorities in Vietnam rarely allow public demonstrations and some…

  • Oil could ignite this powder keg

    South China Morning Post June 29, 2012 Friday While talk of disputed islands hogs the headlines, it’s what lies beneath the waves that deepens tension Greg Torode, Chief Asia Correspondent For all the Sino-Philippine tension at sea over disputed reefs and the megaphone diplomacy in recent days between Beijing and Hanoi over the Paracel Islands,…

  • Buddhist leader calls for demonstrations against China’s territorial expansionism

    According to the Paris-based International Buddhist Information Bureau, the Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, is calling for mass demonstrations across the country on Sunday July 1 to protest China’s recent acts of aggression in its long-steanding policy of territorial encroachment agaisnt Vietnam. The Most Venerable Thich Quang Do plans to himself lead the demonstration…