In reply to reporters’ queries on China’s construction of a military helicopter base on Quang Hoa Island and its deployment of HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles on Phu Lam Island of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa Archipelago, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh said Vietnam demands China immediately end these wrongdoings.
“Vietnam is deeply concerned over China’s aforementioned activities, which seriously violate Vietnam’s sovereignty, and threaten peace and stability in the region, as well as navigation and aviation security, safety and freedom in the East Sea”, he stressed.
On February 19, Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note to the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi to protest China’s infringements on Vietnam’s sovereignty on Hoang Sa Archipelago.
The same day, Vietnam’s permanent mission to the UN sent a diplomatic note to the UN Secretary-General proposing the official circulation of the Vietnamese foreign ministry’s diplomatic note.
