Email this article International court of arbitration in Hague: decisions and significance
- Authors: Lokshin G.M.1
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- Institute for Far Eastern studies, RAS
- Issue: Vol 1, No 7 (2017)
- Pages: 142-160
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2618-9453/article/view/84213
- ID: 84213
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During all 30 years of the «Doi moi» (renovation) policy territorial dispute in the South China Sea (SCS) was the main challenge to security and development of Vietnam. It has a very strong impact not only on the keeping of peaceful external environment, sovereignty and territorial integrity but also on the stability of political regime which always was a great preference of Vietnam. The 12 July 2016 the Arbitration court in Haag adopted award in the suite of Philippine against China but the later from the beginning did not recognized its competence and refused from any cooperation with the court. Nevertheless the Award unanimously adopted by the authoritative international tribunal has a great implication not only to the interests of the Philippine but to Vietnam as well, together with other claimants of sovereign rights in SCS. It has a great importance for the strengthen the law regime and future resolution of disputes in the region. It is not by hazard the award produced a large discussion in the world scientific community. The aim of the author was also to give an attentive appreciation of the significance of this legal document, to present its content and reaction to it from the most interested parties, as well as its possible implications for the prospects of peace solution of the disputes in SCS.
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Grigory M. Lokshin
Institute for Far Eastern studies, RASPh. D. (history), leading researcher of the Center for Vietnam and ASEAN studies, Institute for Far Eastern studies, RAS
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