Vietnam has officially presented the Submission of its extended continental shelf, in respect of Central Area of the East Sea (South China Sea), to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Vietnam has officially presented the Submission of its extended continental shelf, in respect of Central Area of the East Sea (South China Sea), to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).

Vietnam presented to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) its Submission on the Limits of the Extended Continental Shelf in respect of the Central Area of the East Sea (South China Sea) (VNM-C) at the UN headquarters in New York on July 17 morning (local time).

Vietnam once again affirmed that its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) is in accordance with international law and legitimate rights over its territorial waters established in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said on June 20.