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Quotable quotes on S. China Sea arbitration: Arbitral award void, bilateral negotiations needed (2)

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2016-07-14 08:58Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

CHINA TO GIVE PROPER RESPONSE

Liu Zhenmin, Chinese vice foreign minister

-- The ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) is not a Chinese invention, but rather that of some big powers. If our security were threatened, of course we have the right. It depends on our comprehensive judgment.

Qu Xing, Chinese ambassador to Belgium

-- If other parties insist on creating tensions, China will have no choice but to deal with tensions in a proper way. But I am convinced that peace and stability in the region will be maintained.

Chheang Vannarith, chairman of the Cambodian Institute for Strategic Studies

-- Regional tensions are going to rise. It would be a mistake to calculate or assume that China will scale down its sovereign claims and activities in the South China Sea after the ruling.

BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS NEEDED

Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the United States

-- China remains committed to negotiation and consultations with other parties (in the South China Sea). This position has never changed and will not change.

Butch Valdes, former undersecretary, Philippine Department of Education

-- The negotiation must start immediately. And the arbitral ruling is both useless and irrelevant.

Tom Zwart, professor of law at Utrecht University in the Netherlands

-- I hope that after a day of celebration perhaps in Manila, they will come to their senses and pick up the phone to contact the leaders in Beijing and say "we have to resolve this peacefully."

Mohamed Mustafa Al-Daw, head of external relations committee, Sudanese parliament

-- We back China's call for resolving the South China Sea dispute through dialogue and negotiation as the most appropriate means to safeguard the world peace and security.

 

  

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