China warine surveillance violates Vietnam's sovereignty

VGP - Chinese marine surveillance vessels on May 26 violated the sovereignty of Việt Nam's territorial waters, causing economic damage and hindering the operations of the Việt Nam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam).
This information was given by PetroVietnam Deputy General Director Đỗ Văn Hậu while granting an interview to the press in Hà Nội on May 27.

According to Mr. Hậu, in implementing the group's oil and gas exploration and exploitation programme in 2011, the PetroVietnam Technical Service Corporation (PTSC), an affiliate of PetroVietnam, dispatched the seismic survey ship Bình Minh 02 to conduct seismic surveys at Lots 125, 126, 148 and 149, which lie totally within the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Việt Nam.

The Bình Minh 02 ship conducted two surveys on these areas, the first one in 2010 and the second one starting on March 17, 2011, he said, adding that the surveys have been implemented smoothly and the Bình Minh 02 ship has performed its tasks competently.

However, at 5:05am on May 26, the Bình Minh 02 ship's radar detected a strange vessel moving quickly towards the survey area and five minutes later it also saw two other ships approaching. The three ships were then identified as marine surveillance vessels of China which were moving into the survey area without warning.

At 5:58am, the Chinese marine surveillance ships ran through the survey area, only 120 nautical miles from the Đại Lãnh cape in the central province of Phú Yên, an area totally belonging to the territorial waters of Việt Nam's sovereignty, and cut the Bình Minh 02 ship's exploration cables.

Mr. Hậu added that the three Chinese marine surveillance vessels hindered the normal operations of the Bình Minh 02 seismic ship and then threatened the Bình Minh 02 ship, saying that the Vietnamese ship violated China 's sovereignty.

The Bình Minh 02 ship determinedly rejected the Chinese marine surveillance vessels' arguments and affirmed that it was operating legally in the territorial waters of Việt Nam.

However, the Chinese ships continued to impede the Bình Minh 02 ship's operations until they left the survey area at 9:00am on May 26.

The Bình Minh 02 ship had to stop its work on May 26 to gather in damaged equipment for repairing. Under the instruction of PetroVietnam and PTSC, the Bình Minh 02 repaired the equipment on the spot and resumed its operations by 6:00am on May 27.

The PetroVietnam leader affirmed that the Chinese marine surveillance vessels' deep penetration into Việt Nam's territorial waters to sabotage and hinder PetroVietnam's normal exploration activities was an extremely perverse action that obviously violated Việt Nam's sovereignty right, caused economic damage and obstructed PetroVietnam's operations.

He said that PetroVietnam had reported the incident and asked the Vietnamese Government and relevant agencies to take the possible strongest measures protesting against the Chinese side, to demand the Chinese side immediately stop actions that block PetroVietnam's operations, and to assist the group in implementing its exploration and exploitation tasks.

PetroVietnam affirmed that seismic survey activities in this area would continue to be conducted normally because the area belongs to Việt Nam's sovereignty. The group will closely coordinate with relevant agencies to ensure the effective and safe operations of the Bình Minh 02 ship.

The Bình Minh 02 seismic ship, invested by PetroVietnam in 2008, has carried out many surveys on the continental shelf of Việt Nam's sovereignty./.

Source: news.gov.vn

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• Viet nam
• Warine
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• PVN
• Binh Minh 02

[panjilong508]

kill all vietnamese dogs!chinese marine surveillance is great! well done.

[vimatech86]

@panjilong508 : be careful if you bark around like that, because you will be bitten by other Chinese dogs. Chinese lose many times in the past. This time, Chinese will be end in tears...

[panjilong508]

@vimatech86 superfluous words!we live happiness in our country.

[vimatech86]

@panjilong508 Vietname never invade other country. We never want to provoke Chinese, we want to live in peace. But why the f***ing chinese government always want to invade Vietnam? What the f*** you thinkg 120 nautical mile from the mainland of Vietnam is your sea?

[isunlloaoll]

China is 5,000 years of history, Influenced every single civilizations around it. It invented many of the world's most important inventions. You guys (other than my viet friends) are just some dark Asian who looks like monkey saying sh)t about a great Ancient and powerful Civilization.

[isunlloaoll]

@viethluu U stupid aren't you, China has 5000 years of history, and has influence all area around it and now ur saying Chinese are low class lol u funny, and monkey? idk whose the monkey with ur ugly azz language

[ratanasu]

@vimatech86 are you sure viet never invade any body did you know in central vietnam use to had small country name CHAM PA ?next to Kampuchea and did you know all the south vietnam are belong to Kampuchea viet convince the french to draw vn new map Indochina not long ago and may be in the future china can help Lao and Kampuchea draw new map Indochina and thing might happen in buda sanskrit pr edited viet mind yesterday CHINA today USSR tomorrow USA vn game will be over soon.

[kaonimageilaozigun]

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china wont want a war in the area,but if you viets want,maybe china will give it to you.

a new sad news to viets, Sword cruise missile are Deployed in Hainan Island in recently

[NAGuy69]

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Chinks have no shame. THAT'S A REALITY ...