Vietnam on Friday accused a Chinese oil survey vessel and its escorts of violating its sovereignty and demanded that China remove all of its ships from Vietnamese waters, APA reports citing Reuters.
Vietnam and China have for years long been embroiled in a dispute over the potentially energy-rich stretch of waters in the South China Sea.
“Over the last several days, the Chinese survey ship, Haiyang Dizhi 8, and its escorts conducted activities in the southern area of the East Sea that violated Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. This area lies entirely within the Vietnamese waters,” Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said in a statement, referring to the South China Sea.
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