Lawyers' association again opposes
HA NOI (VNS) - The The declaration said regardless of the objection of Chinese ships, escorted by aircraft, deliberately rammed and fired high-power water cannons at Vietnamese vessels, causing damage to many boats and injuring many people on board, the declaration said, noting that on May 26, Chinese fishing ship 11209 sank a Vietnamese fishing vessel with 10 fishermen on board and on June 1, Chinese ships hit ship 2016 of the Vietnam Coast Guard, breaking four holes on its right side. More seriously, on June 23, seven Chinese ships en circled ship KN-95 of the Vietnamese fisheries surveillance force, strongly rammed into one side of the Vietnamese ship, causing serious damage to the ship and preventing the ship from carrying out its mission inside The association asserted that these acts of China are clearly the use of force which seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty and human rights, running counter to the United Nations Charter and international law, particularly the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. These violent acts in reality are a far cry from what China often says as "only normal law enforcement activities," the association said, adding that they not only affect Vietnamese fishermen and law enforcement forces who are operating within Vietnam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf but also cause concern for all nations in the East Sea, running counter to moral standards and international law.
The VLA demands that the Chinese side immediately get the rig out of The association also called on lawyers and people all over the world to continue strongly condemning However, if Earlier, the VLA on May 9 issued the first declaration protesting against |
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