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| Chief Representative of the United Nations (UN) agencies in Vietnam, Ms. Pauline Tamesis, gave an interview to TG&VN about the role of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. (Photo: PH) |
In an interview with TG&VN on the sidelines of the 30th Anniversary of UNCLOS recently organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chief Representative of the United Nations (UN) agencies in Vietnam, Ms. Pauline Tamesis, affirmed that UNCLOS is still meaningful after 30 years of implementation.
Ms. Pauline Tamesis highly appreciated Vietnam’s efforts in continuing dialogue, discussion, especially international cooperation to successfully implement UNCLOS. This effort contributes to ensuring that disputes are resolved through international frameworks and international law.
The UN representative in Vietnam also emphasized the need to address emerging issues that the international community had not previously envisioned when UNCLOS was ratified, and the issues that need to be discussed now are marine conservation.
“For many of us, the ocean economy is an important topic. We need to discuss how UNCLOS can help and ensure that countries continue to cooperate, thereby contributing to many other UN efforts such as the UN conference on the ocean next year,” said Pauline Tamesis.
The UN Representative in Vietnam said that the UN and Vietnam have many opportunities to promote marine economic links, ocean conservation and sustainable development.
Recognizing Vietnam's efforts in promoting UNCLOS, sharing with TG&VN on the sidelines of the UNCLOS Anniversary, Dr. Tran Cong Truc, former Head of the Government Border Committee, affirmed that Vietnam has paid attention to monitoring and applying the provisions of the Convention into practice, including internalizing the Convention through the 2012 Vietnam Law of the Sea.
More specifically, Dr. Tran Cong Truc emphasized that Vietnam relies on the provisions of the Convention to build a strategy for marine economic development, protect Vietnam's legitimate rights and interests at sea, especially Vietnam relies on the principles of the provisions of the Convention to resolve disagreements and disputes over the determination of the scope of overlapping maritime zones and continental shelves between Vietnam and neighboring countries such as China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam has had successes.
“All of these successes reflect that we have very accurately applied the provisions of the Convention to create a stable environment for development cooperation in the region,” Dr. Tran Cong Truc commented.
According to Dr. Tran Cong Truc, the Convention is currently promoting its value in practice; helping Vietnam, coastal countries as well as landlocked countries, and other countries interested in maritime issues have the basis and opportunity to resolve disagreements and disputes, especially resolving issues of determining the scope of maritime zones and continental shelves under national sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction; especially resolving overlapping areas to create an environment for each country's economic development, regional and international cooperation on seas and oceans.
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