SUPPORTING OUR VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY On Tuesday, the National President of the Vietnamese Community in Australia, Mr Tri Vo handed the petition below (signed by more than 10,000 members of the Vietnamese community in Australia) to my good friend Luke Simpkins (Member for Cowan, WA) and myself. Luke Simpkins later presented the petition to Parliament. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable The Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives this petition of certain Australian citizens and Vietnamese Australians draws to the attention of the House: (a) that the Peoples Republic of China has heightened the risks of war in South East Asia by its latest unilateral and provocative installation in mid 2014, of its oil rigs including the Haiyang Shiyou 981 within Vietnams Exclusive Economic Zone, as part of Chinas unsubstantiated 9 dash line daim of more than 90% of Bien Dong (East Sea) aka the South China Sea (SCS by China); and (b) that Australias national interests as a trading nation are at serious risks because the PRCs aggressive policy and practices are threatening peace and stability of the region. We therefore ask the House to: (1) reaffirm that Australia has legitimate interests in the Bien Dong/SCS disputes, as a regional power and a trading nation; (2) declare that any unilateral action to change the status quo, including on air navigation, by any claimant in the Bien Dong/SCS disputes is unacceptable; (3) ask the PRC as an emerging major power in the Asia-Pacific region, to stop its current policy of hegemony; (4) request all claimants to settle their disputes through peaceful negotiations in accordance with international laws including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; and (5) support the negotiations between the PRC and ASEAN for a binding Code of Conduct (COC) to replace the non-binding 2002 Declaration of Conduct (DOC) Also great to catch up again with Davy Nguyễn and Peter Nguyễn.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:46:18 +0000
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