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Chinese fishing boats commit over 500 encroachments

Chinese fishing boats commit over 500 encroachments

Thursday, January 09, 2014, 12:07 GMT+7

Last year, Chinese fishing boats committed 516 encroachments on Vietnam’s territorial waters in the East Sea and they often scared away Vietnamese fishing boats, a conference was told.

>> Chinese ship attacks Vietnamese fishing boat >> Chinese fishing boats violate Vietnam’s territorial waters>> China’s attack on fishing boat is inhuman: law experts This figure was released by central Da Nang City Border Guard Command at the conference held on Wednesday to review activities of border guard forces in 2013. Compared to 2012, the number of such violations of territorial waters increased by 223, the city’s border guard force said. Not only did Chinese fishing boats violate Vietnam’s sovereignty, but they also drove away Vietnamese fishing boats that were operating legally in Vietnamese waters, the force said. Most notably, Chinese military boats scared away Vietnamese fishing boats in the period between May 22-28, 2012, the force reported. Colonel Duong De Dung, commander of the force, said that the violation of Vietnamese waters by Chinese fishing boats to fish illegally has become more and more serious, with the density of violations increasing. There have been cases in which groups of 23-32 Chinese fishing boats encroached on Vietnamese waters with support from China’s disguised armed ships, Colonel Dung said. Lieutenant Colonel Hoang Ngoc Quynh, Chief Secretariat of the Da Nang City Border Guard Headquarters, said the main measure taken by border guard units when they detect violating Chinese fishing boats is to deploy forces to approach them and request that they stop fishing and leave Vietnamese waters immediately.9-dash line The officer also warned that there have been cases in which Chinese arrived in Vietnam with tourist visas, but committed illegal trading in sea animals or made real estate investments in the name of Vietnamese citizens. In addition, concerned agencies also detected 6,410 cases in which Chinese citizens entered Vietnam via Da Nang Port using e-passports showing China’s nine-dash line that violates Vietnam’s sovereignty. This line, also called the cow’s tongue line, was unilaterally created by China to illegally claim its sovereignty over about 80 percent of the East Sea, including Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes, Lieutenant Colonel Quynh said. All these cases have been handled in accordance with relevant regulations of the local border guard force, he added.

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