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Press Release 6: VietWill sends its first petition to the U.N. next week |
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Written by Le Duc
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Saturday, 13 December 2008 13:21 |
13 December 2008
Berkeley, CA - After several weeks of collecting signatures, VietWill is sending its first of a series of petitions to the United Nations Security Council regarding China's aggression in the South China Sea next week.
According to members of VietWill, the first petition aims to collect signatures from common people who share the group's concerns about China's attempt to claim over three-fourth of the South China Sea as its own historic sea as well as both the Paracel and Spratly archipelagos as its own territories.
In making these claims and proceeding to take actions such as preventing its neighbors from engaging in economic development in their maritime territories, harming and even killing fishermen making a living on the sea, and single-handedly carrying out building and oil exploration projects on the South China Sea, China has broken basic international laws regarding territorial sovereignty and presented itself as an economic and political hegemon in the region.
Signatures from other segments of the population, including students, academics, politicians, and various organizations are in plan for future petitions. VietWill feels that by focussing on a specific group at a time, the issue of China infringing on its neighbors' territorial sovereignty will be addressed in a more thorough and forceful manner.
According to petition organizers, the first petition amassed 1000 signatures from individuals whom they have personally met, shared the content of the letter to the UN with, and who have agreed to signed the petition. They also added that by choosing this more time consuming method over the internet petitions often used nowadays, the petition would be more credible in the eyes of the Security Council, which is the United Nation's highest governing body.
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