China has breached Indonesian territory. Indonesia says China claims part of its territorial waters March 13 2014 China has claimed some parts of Indonesian territorial waters in the South China Sea, Indonesian government officials said Thursday. The state-run news agency Antara on Thursday quoted 1st Marshall Fahru Zaini, assistant deputy to the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, as saying that China has included some parts of Indonesian territorial waters in the Natuna Sea, located in the South China Sea, into its nine-dash-line territorial map. He was referring to Beijings U-shaped uninterrupted line enclosing the entire South China Sea. This claim will very much affect the Natuna sea security, Fahru said, stressing that China has breached Indonesian territory. The map, according to Fahru, has also been included in newly issued passports of Chinese citizens. Agus Sriyono, deputy for foreign policy affairs at the office of the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, later told Kyodo News that the claim by China is still related to our territorial waters, not the islands located therein. No actions have been taken, however, by Jakarta to respond to the claim. Indonesia made the comments before senior officials of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China meet in Singapore next week to discuss a legally binding code of conduct to ease tensions in the South China Sea. Chinas increasingly assertive claim to most of the disputed sea -- which has some of the worlds busiest shipping routes and is believed to be rich in oil and gas -- overlaps claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. China has long maintained that territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea, which it claims almost in its entirety, should be resolved bilaterally among claimant states. ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. globalpost/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/140313/indonesia-says-china-claims-part-its-territorial-water ==Kyodo
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:13:11 +0000
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