The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Taiwan's (China) conducting live-fire drills in the waters around Ba Binh Island in Vietnam's Spratly Islands.
"As has been repeatedly affirmed, the fact that Taiwan organizes live-fire drills in the waters around Ba Binh in Vietnam's Spratly Islands is a serious violation of Vietnam's territorial sovereignty over this archipelago. "Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at the regular press conference on December 3.
The illegal exercise was conducted by Taiwan on November 24th. A spokesman for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that Taiwan's action "threatens peace, stability, safety, maritime security, stress straightening and complicating the situation in the East Sea ”.
"Vietnam firmly objected and asked Taiwan not to conduct the above illegal exercise, as well as repeat violations in the future," said a spokesman for the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry.
In related developments, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam also objected to China's recent illegal moves, when it announced the restoration of illegal ship tourism to the Paracel Islands and voluntarily continued. receive hospital ships at the port on Cross rock in the Spratly Islands of Vietnam.
"All activities in the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos without the permission of Vietnam violate Vietnam's sovereignty, violate international law and have no legal validity," said the Foreign Ministry spokesman. said Le Thi Thu Hang.
"Vietnam asked China to respect Vietnam's sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos, to cancel and terminate the organization of tours to Vietnam's Hoang Sa archipelago; as well as Act can increase tensions and complicate the situation, contrary to the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), is not conducive to the maintenance of a peaceful, stable and harmonious environment. cooperation in the East Sea as well as efforts of other countries to negotiate a Code of Conduct (COC) in the East Sea and relations between the two countries ", Ms. Hang stressed.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam affirmed that Vietnam has sufficient legal bases and historical evidence asserting Vietnam's sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands in accordance with international law.