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Article: South China Sea fishing ban "indisputable": foreign ministry spokesman
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 9, 2009
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South China Sea fishing ban "indisputable": foreign ministry
spokesman
BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- In response to Vietnam's request to
overturn China's ban on fishing in the South China Sea, a spokesman
of China's Foreign Ministry said here that it is China's regular
measures to protect marine resources within its own territorial
waters.
Qin Gang, spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, was quoted by
Tuesday's Global Times as saying that China has "indisputable"
sovereignty over the South China Sea islands, including Xisha and
Nansha islands, and their adjacent waters.
"It's a regular and justified administrative measure of China to
post a summer fishing ban within the South China Sea, with ...