PH to take on China at International Tribunal

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The Philippine government announced Tuesday, January 22, that it will elevate its territorial dispute with China to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

In a press conference today, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the government decided to bring the disputes in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) to Annex VII arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The Philippines will ask the arbitral tribunal to declare China’s claims as invalid, and that the said maritime areas should follow. Del Rosario said the PH asserts that the 9-Dash Line claim is against the UNCLOS, of which both the Philippines and China are signatories, and thus “unlawful.”


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