An aerial photo taken on Sept. 25, 2015 from a seaplane of Hainan Maritime Safety Administration shows cruise vessel Haixun 1103 heading to the Yacheng 13-1 drilling rig during a patrol in South China Sea. (Xinhua/Zhao Yingquan)
YAOUNDE, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The Cameroonian government has called for a peaceful solution to the territorial and maritime dispute in the South China Sea.
Cameroonian Deputy Foreign Minister Joseph Dion Ngute made the appeal while meeting with Sun Wei, Charge d'Affairs of the Chinese Embassy to Cameroon on Monday.
The Cameroonian government supports a peaceful solution to the dispute in the South China Sea, especially through consultations and negotiations in line with international law, said Ngute.
Cameroon's leading newspaper Mutation carried in a recent issue an article entitled "China Insists on Solving South China Sea Dispute Peacefully" under the by-line of Chinese Ambassador to Cameroon Wei Wenhua.
In the article, the Chinese ambassador explained the background of the South China Sea dispute and the arbitration case as well as why China does not accept South China Sea arbitration case.
In the end of the article, the ambassador said China is dedicated to maintaining peace and security in the South China Sea, protecting her own sovereignty and concerned rights in the area, insisting on solving the dispute peacefully through negotiations between the concerned parties based on respecting the facts of history and international law.
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GRONINGEN, The Netherlands, June 14 (Xinhua) -- The arbitral tribunal in the Philippines' South China Sea (SCS) arbitration exceeded its competence by circumventing the real disputes and by degrading the role of States, such arbitral expansion is detrimental to the settlement of disputes, said Haibo Gou, legal advisor and counsellor at the Chinese embassy in the Netherlands.
The Philippines, which illegally occupied some of China's islands and reefs in the SCS in the 1970s, unilaterally filed the arbitration in 2013. Full Story
LONDON, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Two leading experts on international law in Britain have recently published two research papers, both concluding that an arbitral tribunal which allowed the South China Sea case initiated by the Philippines against China to go ahead is not convincing in many respects.
Antonios Tzanakopoulos, associate professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, and Chris Whomersley, a former deputy legal adviser to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, were the experts. Full Story
