• An Giang
  • Binh Duong
  • Binh Phuoc
  • Binh Thuan
  • Binh Dinh
  • Bac Lieu
  • Bac Giang
  • Bac Kan
  • Bac Ninh
  • Ben Tre
  • Cao Bang
  • Ca Mau
  • Can Tho
  • Dien Bien
  • Da Nang
  • Da Lat
  • Dak Lak
  • Dak Nong
  • Dong Nai
  • Dong Thap
  • Gia Lai
  • Ha Noi
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Ha Giang
  • Ha Nam
  • Ha Tinh
  • Hoa Binh
  • Hung Yen
  • Hai Duong
  • Hai Phong
  • Hau Giang
  • Khanh Hoa
  • Kien Giang
  • Kon Tum
  • Lai Chau
  • Long An
  • Lao Cai
  • Lam Dong
  • Lang Son
  • Nam Dinh
  • Nghe An
  • Ninh Binh
  • Ninh Thuan
  • Phu Tho
  • Phu Yen
  • Quang Binh
  • Quang Nam
  • Quang Ngai
  • Quang Ninh
  • Quang Tri
  • Soc Trang
  • Son La
  • Thanh Hoa
  • Thai Binh
  • Thai Nguyen
  • Thua Thien Hue
  • Tien Giang
  • Tra Vinh
  • Tuyen Quang
  • Tay Ninh
  • Vinh Long
  • Vinh Phuc
  • Vung Tau
  • Yen Bai

Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum concludes

VGP – More than 100 delegates from ten ASEAN member countries and Australia, China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Russia, and the US attended the 3rd Expanded ASEAN Maritime Forum (EAMF).

August 28, 2014 7:54 PM GMT+7

During the one-day gathering, the participants, including scholars, updated the current maritime cooperation situation; discussed measures to cope with disasters and incidents and ensure security, safety and freedom of navigation.

They also shared experience and practices, recommendations on the occasion of 20-year implementation of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as well as future orientations for the forum.

Given the increasingly complicated situation and incidents in regional seas, EAMF has played an important role in fostering dialogue and confidence building on maritime cooperation and security.

The participants reaffirmed the importance of peace, stability, maritime security, freedom and safety of navigation, and agreed that greater efforts should be taken, especially in view of complicated developments on the ground.

The stressed the importance of UNCLOS, and also encouraged ASEAN and China to work for the full and effective implementation of the DOC, particularly Article 5 relating to self-restraint and not taking actions that might complicate the situation, as well as for the early conclusion of the COC.

The forum agreed that trust and confidence will be vital basis for strengthening maritime security and exploring areas of further cooperation, and vice versa. In this regard, disaster, humanitarian assistance, SAR have been discussed in-depth. In SAR, for example, the participants have highlighted the issues of communication, coordination, and capacity building, and modalities for such areas./.

By Quang Minh