Legal matters involving the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, the Netherlands, were featured at an international workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on July 23.
Attending the event were more than 200 guests and 20 speakers who are prestigious researchers in the fields of politics, international law and marine law from Russia, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Belgium and Vietnam.
In his opening speech, Rector of the HCM City University of Law Mai Hong Quy underscored the need for Vietnam and countries to study procedures to settle disputes by arbitration procedures established at Appendix VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
Participants clarified mechanisms to settle disputes in line with the 1982 UNCLOS, weighed the legal value of the ruling issued by the PCA on July 12 in the Philippines’ lawsuit against China, the lawsuit’s impact on the regional and global politics, navigation and aviation freedom, and international relations.
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