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China requested to deal with the consequences of the attack on Vietnamese fishermen by Chinese vessels


Representatives from Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry met and handed a diplomatic note to  their counterparts from Chinese Embassy in Hanoi protesting that Chinese on-duty vessels opened fire killing and injuring many Vietnamese fishermen in the western side of the delimitation line of Tonkin Gulf in the common fishing area, violating the Tonkin Gulf Delimitation Agreement and Vietnam-China Fishery Cooperation Agreement.

 

Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry requested the Chinese side to take measures to promptly prevent and put an end to similar wrongful acts, conduct investigation and severely punish the killers and in the short run repatriate the Vietnamese detainees and the bodies of the dead, deal with all the consequences, compensate for the Vietnamese fishermen’s losses of life and property, cooperate with Vietnam to  investigate the case and report to the two countries’ leaders. The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry instructed its diplomatic missions in China to request the Chinese side to arrange consular visits to the Vietnamese injured and detained fishermen in the soonest time possible.

 

In the meantime, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry proposed to organize a meeting of the Joint Committee on Fishery in the Tonkin Gulf to soon stabilize the situation in the common fishing areas in the Tonkin Gulf and to prevent recurrences of similar incidents so as to ensure strict observation of the Agreement on Fishery Cooperation in the Tonkin Gulf between the two countries.

 

 Hanoi, 16tth January 2005

 
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