Friday, November 20, 2015

Indonesia to voice concerns on China maritime claims at ASEAN Summit

Indonesia will openly express its opposition to China's vast claims in the South China Sea when Southeast Asian senior officials, ministers and leaders gather over the coming days in Kuala Lumpur for a series of annual meetings, stressing that China's so-called "nine-dash lines" map has no legal basis, a government source said Friday.

The area contained in the so-called nine-dash lines, which covers most of the South China Sea, overlaps with the exclusive economic zone generated from Indonesia's Natuna Islands.

Indonesia officially protested against China's map when it was officially submitted to the United Nations in May 2009.

The source, citing a position paper, said Indonesia will say during meetings of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations that it does not recognize China's claims based on the nine-dash line map as it "clearly lacks international legal basis," and considers it to be, for all intents and purposes, in a state of "non-existence."

And although Indonesia is not a claimant state in the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, it has been warily monitoring China's development of infrastructure there, including rig and lighthouse construction, as well as its seismic surveys and fishing activities, the paper says.

It says Indonesia will stress that it has sovereignty over maritime territory in Natuna Sea and some parts of the South China Sea and therefore needs "to maintain its sovereignty and its sovereign rights in each maritime zone."

Through diplomatic channels and notes, Indonesia has been repeatedly seeking clarification from China on the nine-dash line shown on a map published in 1947 by the then Republic of China to justify its claims in the South China Sea, but to no avail, the source said.......................http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2015/11/385345.html

21/11/15
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