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Its vessels, including marine surveillance boats and frigates, constantly fired water cannons at Vietnamese sailors aboard civilian boats on duty. The "We want to see a code of conduct, we want to see this resolved peacefully through the law of the sea, through arbitration, through any other means but not direct confrontation and aggressive action," Kerry said. For his part, Singapore Foreign Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam said ASEAN Foreign Ministers issued a statement on the "We need a situation where parties resolve their disputes and their differences in a way that's acceptable to all," he said. Six US senators issued a joint statement criticizing China’s stationing of its oil rig in the disputed waters and attacks on Vietnamese ships, describing its actions as ‘troubling’ in the region. “These actions threaten the free flow of global commerce in a vital region," said the joint statement signed by Democratic Senators Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida, Jim Risch of Idaho and John McCain of Arizona. Congressman Eni Faleomavaega of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, on May 8 also strongly criticized VOV |
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