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[ViXuyen]

Sinh Ton island and on going construction

 

[Soryu]

PRC's new provoke:

 

[EastSea]

cowardice Chinese is fear to facing with Japanese, just threat small neighbors.

 

[cirr]

Tuoitrenews

Updated : 05/05/2014 10:21 GMT + 7

The HD 981 drilling rig of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is seen in this file photo.
File photo

The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement objecting to China’s illegal operation of a drilling rig in Vietnam’s waters in the East Sea, and the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has demanded that the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) move the rig out of the Southeast Asian country’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.

On May 3, the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration released a maritime warning on its website, saying that China’s drilling rig HD 981 began operating in a location of 15°29’58’’ North latitude and 111°12’06’’ East longitude in the East Sea on May 2 and will continue to operate until August 15, said Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Le Hai Binh.

In the warning, the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration also bans all vessels from entering the area where the rig is operating within a radius of one nautical mile.

The announced location of the drilling rig is totally within the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Vietnam, about 119 nautical miles (221 km) from Ly Son Island off the central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai and 18 nautical miles south of Tri Ton Island of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, the spokesman said.

“Vietnam has full historical evidence and legal grounds to prove its sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos as well as sovereign rights and jurisdiction over its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf in accordance with the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea,” Binh said.

The diplomat stressed that “any activities conducted by foreign countries in Vietnam’s waters without Vietnam’s permission is illegal and void. Vietnam resolutely opposes such activities.”

Request for removal of rig

PetroVietnam, the national oil group, has also released a statement saying that on May 2, CNOOC put the drilling rig HD 981 into operation about 120 nautical miles from Vietnam’s coast and within the country’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.

The fact that CNOOC operates the rig in this location has violated Vietnam’s sovereign and jurisdictional rights according to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, PetroVietnam said.

On May 4, PetroVietnam sent a letter to the president and general director of CNOOC that strongly opposed the violation and demanded that CNOOC stop the operation of the drilling rig and move the platform out of Vietnam’s waters.

The above action by CNOOC goes against the cooperative spirit between the national oil and gas groups of both countries, the practice of international oil and gas activities, and the friendly and cooperative principles between Vietnam and China, PetroVietnam said in the letter.

PetroVietnam requests that CNOOC not repeat similar actions in the future.

In talking with Tuoi Tre newspaper on May 4 about the illegal operation of the CNOOC drilling rig, Dang Cong Ngu, chairman of Hoang Sa District, central Da Nang City, said, “This is a perverse and illegal action, as the location of the CNOOC drilling rig is within the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Vietnam. As the chairman of Hoang Sa District, I strongly oppose this action.”

Vietnam protests China’s illegal operation of drilling rig in Vietnamese waters

 

[ViXuyen]

Nothing news, 20 years ago you guys were much bolder than this; placing your rig just 70 km from our shore, this time it's 221 km

 

[cirr]

I hear that our Vietnamese friends love green turnips。

True or false？

 

[bolo]

@Beidou2020 , we like hearing news like these where the media is negative against China. Means we are doing the right thing.

 

[Beidou2020]

Viet Nam has no EEZ. That's our sea, our resources and we are exploring our resources in our sea.

 

[sincity]

Drop a nuke in SCS, you don't need to demand China to pull off the oil rig.

 

[cnleio]

Do it for OIL !

 

[Viet]

I hear that our Vietnamese friends love green turnips。

True or false？

do you like this one?

Nothing news, 20 years ago you guys were much bolder than this; placing your rig just 70 km from our shore, this time it's 221 km

221km from the Ly Son island, means appr. 250km from the shore.

Viet Nam has no EEZ. That's our sea, our resources and we are exploring our resources in our sea.

don´t talk bullshit...stay at your middle land.

 

[Viet]

beautiful Ly Son island. tourists are welcome, but not pirates

 

[xunzi]

Typical Vietnamese dirty media tactic. Paracel archipelegao is fully and completely under our current administration. They are basically complaining that the drilling area is 119 nautical miles away from Ly Son Island (administer by Vietnam) and that we cannot drill in our 18 nautical miles off Triton Island (which we administer). What a joke! LOL

You want to stop us from drilling? Perhaps grow some ball and take Paracel away from us.

This is what happen when small states are cleverly using dirty tactic to badmouth us because we are big and perceive as bully. Because we are big, we are not allow to make a claim and drill within our administration territorial EEZ right within Paracel. To get an idea of how outrageous this is. Imagine Columbia/Venezuela telling the US to stop drilling near US's offshore territory, Virgin Island.

 

[ViXuyen]

Typical Vietnamese dirty media tactic. Paracel archipelegao is fully and completely under our current administration. They are basically complaining that the drilling area is 119 nautical miles away from Ly Son Island (administer by Vietnam) and that we cannot drill in our 18 nautical miles off Triton Island (which we administer). What a joke! LOL

You want to stop us from drilling? Perhaps grow some ball and take Paracel away from us.

This is what happen when small states are cleverly using dirty tactic to badmouth us because we are big and perceive as bully. Because we are big, we are not allow to make a claim and drill within our administration territorial EEZ right within Paracel. To get an idea of how outrageous this is. Imagine Columbia/Venezuela telling the US to stop drilling near US's offshore territory, Virgin Island.

I bet u that this oil rig will be removed soon.

Vietnam's soverignty over the Paracel is indisputeable. You robbed the island from us at gunpoint during our civil war. I've said this before, if we can get back our country after under your rule for more than 1000 years, we'll wait for the right time when you're weak to get this island back.

 

[xunzi]

I bet u that this oil rig will be removed soon.

Vietnam's soverignty over the Paracel is indisputeable. You robbed the island from us at gunpoint during our civil war. I've said this before, if we can get back our country after under your rule for more than 1000 years, we'll wait for the right time when you're weak to get this island back.

You are more than welcome to get it remove.

I got 3 words for you, "come get it". We are waiting. But I will tell you this, in the next 10-20 years your army will not be fighting our manned aircraft because you are not worthy of it; but instead you will fight against our drones.