Chinese ships chase Vietnamese fishermen away from Vietnam’s waters

The National Committee for Incident, Natural Disaster Response and Search and Rescue has asked the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center to maintain communications with the fishing boat and clarify the situation upon receiving an assistance request from the boat’s captain. The Navy, Coast Guard and the Steering Committee for Search and Rescue of the south central Binh Dinh Province, where the fishing boat is registered, have also been tasked with assisting the vessel in carrying out legal fishing activities within Vietnamese waters. According to Dr. Tran Cong Truc, former head of the government’s Border Committee, the incident of three Chinese vessels chasing away the Binh Dinh fishing boat is a violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Vietnam’s sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over waters in the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, are determined in accordance with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and Vietnam declared the baseline used for determining its territorial waters on November 12, 1982. Under the convention, a coastal state’s waters include internal waters, territorial waters, contiguous zone, EEZ and continental shelf. Of the five areas, a coastal state’s… Read full this story

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